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Started by chain, January 09, 2014, 07:11:39 AM

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A recent article in "Woodland" magazine discusses the "how-to" of saving beavers and developing wetland habitat. Several structures were devised to control water levels from beaver dams and fencing used to protect tree damage. Also, a live trap was used to capture and transport beaver to other approved areas. I admire those folks for trying to live with a sometimes destructive pest.

Good luck to them! But what I have found is to reduce the population of a given area by means of lethal trapping. Of about a twenty acre pond, when beaver reach numbers that they begin damaging trees that have never before been chewed on, and damming culverts and drains never before affected then, it s time to severely reduce the local beaver population by any means.

Once the initial trapping is done a maintenance trapping of six beaver per year[for twenty acre pond] seems to work well with holding numbers to a acceptable level.

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