Beaver travels?

How far will beaver travel overland looking for new home? Someone brought one for me to
skin. He shot it at his house, 2 miles from the nearest water

They do some unexplainable things at times for sure. Traveling season now!

Maybe he thought your buddy was sexy!!!!

I seem to recall transplant records for some Oregon beaver that had traveled quite a ways from the transplant spot when eventually caught some years later. I wanna say maybe 25-30 miles? How big of beaver was it? Dispersal age is usually around 1--2 years of age. L-XL sizes

34#

That is about the right weight for a dispersing juvenile that is probably coming up on its second birthday soon.

Farthest I've cut beaver from water is about 3 miles.

Crawl under on a sheep fence.
Was hoping for a coyote, sure was surprised when snare held a beaver.

Watch out for beaver that are up on land in spring.
They are extremely agressive if you get them cornered.

Ran into one between the Little Bighorn and Lodgegrass drainages in Montana once that I felt was all of two miles from either one It was late spring and both were flooding bad

I've caught 2 over the years in dirthole sets made for coyote/bcats on logging roads...there was no water within at least several hundred yds....this was up in the dry pine woodlands.

There are beaver in ponds here that have had to go 2-3 miles overland.

You bet! There’s a heck of a story behind this pic. They bought me beaver PJs after my incident.

I have experienced this myself and the beaver was not cornered. As I approached it, it did an about face and came at me at a pace I was not prepared to deal with. I got back in my vehicle and left him to continue his travels.

On another note, I read somewhere that a dispersing beaver was radio tracked and it traveled some 55 miles before it settled in.