[AT] mice & coons

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Tue Jul 24 06:18:06 PDT 2007


Ralph, if you were in the US and you let the beaver dam stay there for more 
than a few weeks the gov't would declair it all wet land and you'd never be 
able to do anything about it anyway.

Another friend of mine showed me a place of about 30 acres on his land.  It 
was a natural ravine with a small stream running through.  The beavers damed 
it up  and they couldn't get rid of them.  The 30 acres is now a pond full 
of dead old growth hardwoods and pine that drowned because of the beavers. 
It probably cost him 50 thousand dollars or more in lost timber.  It was an 
area they had never timbered because it was so beautiful and because of 
trying to be good stewards of their land.  The beavers ruined it all.  I 
guess the ducks like it but we have more than enough wetland habitat in this 
area.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:48 PM
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>>I knew a guy (who has since died) who owned vast amounts of timber lands.
>> He had terrible problems with beaver dams flooding land and destroying
>> timber.  He told me once that he paid a guy with a big track excavator a
>> bunch of money to tear out a beaver dam.  By the end of the following
>> weekend the beavers had the dam rebuilt.
>
> Charlie, this is all too familiar to me. In the past few years beavers 
> have
> built dams on a small creek that crosses my land and it is now impossible 
> to
> get across with anything other than a 4 wd atv. Farm equipment has to go
> about two and a half miles around by roads to get to the other half of the
> field. I tried opening up the dam several times. A lot of work and it is 
> all
> for nothing as they will rebuild it while I am sleeping. Shooting or
> trapping is about the only hope. Or else rent the land across the creek 
> out
> to a neighbour.
> Like so many animals they were a novelty when they first came to the area
> but eventually became a pest. Same as coons. Deer too if you get enough of
> them attacking a haystack or ruining swaths in the field.
> Coyotes have been here longer than humans and we mostly co-exist ok. I've
> had to shoot the occasional one that developed a taste for my chickens.
> They help keep the gopher population under control I hope.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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