[AT] Real farmers problems - adiscussionoflanduserelatedtofarming - wasfuel problemsgetexpensive-perspectivesandreactions

john hall jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sat Jul 3 04:57:57 PDT 2010


Beavers don't cause quite the damage here that they do in the flat part of 
the state. I belive the state isn't in love with them like they used to be. 
They started flooding land beside rural roads which caused the road to 
undermine leading to some bad wrecks. Then the DOT starting tearing down the 
dams. At least thats what I remember reading a couple years back.

I got a real simple solution for those that want to protect the wildlife. No 
more new houses. Only build skyscrapers. That way we don't take more habitat 
for useless purposes such as houses and shopping malls. Now all the land 
that is left could stay as agricutural and forestry. Now the wildlife, 
landowners, farmers and forestry workers would win. Lets see, the loser 
would only be the ones that haven't lost in the game thus far. Sounds fair 
to me.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers problems - 
adiscussionoflanduserelatedtofarming - wasfuel 
problemsgetexpensive-perspectivesandreactions


> 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.
>
>
> Charlie
>




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