[AT] mice & coons

[Edward Tabor]

I'm told to get rid of beavers, if you put a drainage pipe in the middle 
of their dam, it drains the pond, the beavers cannot figure out where 
their dam is leaking from and they get frustrated and leave.  We do not 
have a beaver problem around our place, although I'm told county roads 
plays hell with them flooding roadways and damming up bridges.

Ed

Ralph Goff wrote:

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>From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
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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.
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>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.
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>Ralph in Sask.
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