#$%^$ beavers

[Gellar]

Would you guys please stop! I'm running out of self control.

You are implying that some of us had self control…

 

[Stocker]

Beavers doing beaver things. Like them or hate them. They are one damn smart critter. It's a shame they get so much hate. Im constantly amazed at what they can do.

I’m fascinated by them too. I try to leave them alone as much as I can. My son and his friend made a duck blind, they spent a whole day gone, called and asked if they could cut some corn stalks for it I told them go ahead. I took them out opening morning of teal season. They are wading around looking for their blind swearing we should see it. Then I just see this wooden frame. I started laughing, in 1 day the beavers took every stalk of corn they put on it. They were less than thrilled but I was amused.

 

[Gellar]

Check your game regs first. I think most states it’s illegal to shoot a beaver. You can trap them in most states with proper license.

I’d have to read deeper into the regs but I don’t know shooting one would necessarily be illegal here if you have a furbearer and other proper licenses but shooting a rifle over water is illegal so you’d have to be careful where you are at.

 

[brymoore]

Beaver are ok to eat. Yes, they taste similar to beef. However, they make great trapping bait. Bobcats love beaver. My dogs could care less about any animals I trapped except for a deep dog sniff. They were maniacs trying to get a piece of beaver to eat when I fleshed hides.

 

[INMT]

Some of the biggest fish I’ve caught have been behind beaver dams.

I don’t have private property they are affecting so I’m probably biased.

 

[Nick87]

don’t have private property they are affecting so I’m probably biased.

I've had to rip out more than a handful. I always feel bad doing it. I always laugh when local farmers I know rip them out and they're all proud like they won the battle. The look on there face when the beavers come back with a vengeance. Tried to tell ya.

 

[cgasner1]

This thread would have been gold tomorrow morning if shedgod was still around.

 

[INMT]

I've had to rip out more than a handful. I always feel bad doing it. I always laugh when local farmers I know rip them out and they're all proud like they won the battle. The look on there face when the beavers come back with a vengeance. Tried to tell ya.

Yeah if they’re f’in up your operation you gotta do what you gotta do. Tough time actually getting rid of them though.

 

[Nick87]

Yeah if they’re f’in up your operation you gotta do what you gotta do. Tough time actually getting rid of them though.

Some of my best duck hunting spots, I always joke about how id love to live trap them and transport them to places I need some water.

 

[Irrelevant]

Yes, dick, at 22, I too #*^@#* beavers. However, now I am married... I just dream about being 22 again.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Every frat boy at every university uses that job title.

I saw Beaver Bounty Work open for the Archbishops of Testicular Snugness at the Wonder Bar, New Years Eve, 1999.

Highly recommend.

 

[R.K.]

Yeah if they’re f’in up your operation you gotta do what you gotta do. Tough time actually getting rid of them though.

The problem with that is, in my experience, the farmers cut ditches and drained wetlands to try farming the swamp/marsh, and now the beavers are turning it back into what it was 20 years prior.

The operation encroached into wetlands (which isn’t exactly legal with the drainage techniques used), and then got upset when it got wet. Make it make sense…

 

[Gellar]

I saw Beaver Bounty Work open for the Archbishops of Testicular Snugness at the Wonder Bar, New Years Eve, 1999.

Highly recommend.

Those tickets were hard to get.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Fun beaver video I wanted to share. Beavers were causing issues in Idaho so they relocated them further away from humans. Instead of mules and pack strings they decided to use left over war parachutes to drop them in

 

[Elktrack]

Fun beaver video I wanted to share. Beavers were causing issues in Idaho so they relocated them further away from humans. Instead of mules and pack strings they decided to use left over war parachutes to drop them in

Actually, they air dropped them in remote areas to re establish them in those areas. It’s not like they were problem bears or something.
Pretty cool how they did it

 

[Nunyacreek]

There’s a neat book called Three Against the Wilderness by Eric Collier which chronicles a homesteading family in BC in the mid 20th century as they work to reestablish beaver live with them.
I love trapping beaver and often wonder when beaver will hit their overall human tolerance level in today’s world. Judging by their levels in the pre-fur trade era their must have been a heck of a lot more beavers then. It seems to me that Beaver are a lot like real estate and skateboarding, Beavers are not a crime, it’s just location, location, location.

 

[Stocker]

 

[geetar]

 

[mevertsen]

My parents live just a couple miles from Dixie Creek. I haven't been to the creek in quite some time, but I've been around the others mentioned.

Amazing what can happen when those areas are allowed to come up.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Actually, they air dropped them in remote areas to re establish them in those areas. It’s not like they were problem bears or something.
Pretty cool how they did it

"After World War II, many people moved further away from Idaho’s capital, Boise, to more rural areas such as Payette Lake and McCall. However, a beaver population was already established in these regions and people weren’t happy with them chomping down trees and building dams as it affected their properties.


As the Department recognised the significant role that beavers play as ecosystem engineers (and realised the money they could save by moving the beavers elsewhere instead of building dams to stabilise water supplies), they chose to relocate the animals instead of exterminating them."


Source :https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/beaver-drop-idaho-1948