[AT] Real farmers problems - a discussionoflanduserelatedtofarming - was fuel problemsgetexpensive-perspectivesandreactions

[charlie hill]

It's the same here Ralph.  The land here is flat.  The elevation in this 
county varies from sea level to about 40 feet above sea level.  In hilly 
country a beaver can dam up a stream, make a small pond and everyone lives 
together pretty well.  Around here a beaver dam might destroy as much as 40 
or 50 acres of timber and floo6d many acres of fields, causing them to be 
too wet to work as you stated.  I have a retired friend who used to own a 
mobile home park that started having drainage and flooding problems because 
of beaver dams.  He went to a meeting that was held about the beaver 
problems in the area.  (this was in the early 80's)  There were people at 
the meeting from several surrounding counties.  The wildlife folks were 
there and speaking to the crowd.  My friend said a man he didn't know was 
standing next to him.   The fellow leaned over and said,  that the wildlife 
guy was lying about the how the beaver got here.  He said wildlife brought 
the beavers to the area and turned them loose.  He offered to take my friend 
to the place where they had kept them in a fenced compound prior to release.

We've got another critter called a Nutrea or something like that.  He's kind 
of like a huge rat.   They are bad about digging burrows into the side of 
canal banks.    A couple of counties over where the land is even flatter 
than it is here there are big water control canals around and through most 
farm land tracts.    Those guys tell me that you never know the Nutrea 
burrow is there until you drive down the canal bank in a big tractor or 
combine  and the bank caves in,   sometimes causing the equipment to 
overturn into the canal.  It's a dangerous situation.   This same area is 
also where the wildlife folks decided to release RED WOLVES about 15 years 
ago.   A friend over in Hyde Co.  told me she heard here little dog fussing 
in distress in the yard.  She opened the house door.  The dog was on a full 
run for the house and shot through the door.  She said she slammed the door 
behind the dog and the Wolf ran into the closed door.  It's against federal 
law to kill those wolves.

Charlie

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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:57 AM
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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>
>> Al, that is particularly true with the beaver since there were no beavers
>> in
>> coastal NC until wildlife brought them here in the 70's (I can't prove
>> that
>> but it is a widely held belief around here)
>> Since the time they showed up they've destroyed countless dollars worth 
>> of
>> timber and turned dry land into federally protected wetlands.   As best I
>> can tell there is no reason or purpose for them in our ecosystem.   Big
>> rats
>> with big teeth and a flat tail.  Don't get me wrong.  I like to look at
>> them
>> but they are out of control.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> Those big rodents are a problem here too Charlie. I remember when they 
> first
> showed up in the area about 1970 on my Uncles farm. They thought it was
> great to see these new creatures on the farm.. Now they are one of the
> biggest pests. Not so much the trees they chew down because we have plenty
> of them but its the dams they build and flood farmland. I've got one half
> section I farm that has become two separate fields within the last few
> years. Just too wet to get across and I have to go around by the road with
> machinery. An extra mile and a half at least. I'd shoot them all if I had
> the time but I don't.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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