[AT] mice & coons

[Bill "Bear" Hood]

I have used the drainage pipe 4 times personally and it worked every time.  I heard about it from an Animal Damage Control Specialist (read state trapper)

We used dynamite to blast the dam and then put about 20' of 5" well casing (I had it) with 10' or so upstream.  No elbows at all.  Each time they moved up or down stream onto my neighbors.  Never did admit to moving the critters as I value good neighbors.  

We have a different problem here--I live on a lake that has a 40 acre natural wetland/pond below our dam.  They reside in the swamp and come over our dam and damage trees as well as cutting a ditch up both sides of the earthen dam.  I have used snares successfully and have over 60 notches on my snare anchor hammer handle.  One we trapped streached nearly all the way across a Chevy tailgate and the State trapper said was the biggest he had seen.  

I once fed a bunch of hogs next to a 5 acre lake for drinking water and beavers were seen in the hog feeders often. Back then it was a sport for my son to use a 22 Hornet on them.  We have some folks with the Bambi mentality that think we should not bother them at all.  Hate to think what replacing a 1000' earthen dam 40' high would cost after they allow erosion to cut the structure in the beaver slides.
Bear
--- nysports at frontiernet.net wrote:

From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:03:42 -0400

Ed -

The Conservation Dept here in NYS uses drainage pipes on problem beaver ponds that keep flooding roads. On the intake end they place an elbow that faces down. Most of the time the beavers can't figure out how to seal it up, but there are exceptions when they do. Or, as a wildlife biologist friend told me, "You can fool all of the beavers some of the time, but you can't fool some of the beavers all the time."

Bob
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