Sometimes I go for days with no beaver news, but we’ve entered the dragnet of beaver stories, where I received round the clock reports of beaver killing in Arkansas, or Arcadia, or Price Edward Island. I guess everyone wants to get their dead beavers in a row before winter, but it’s a little depressing. Here are the highlights of misunderstanding.
Grand Falls-Windsor Newfoundland About 30 beavers are clogging up Corduroy Brook Trail in Grand Falls-Windsor, and several of their dams and lodges have caused flooding.”We want the beavers, beavers are a good attraction, and we want them to stay around. But if we didn’t control the populations, they’d eat themselves out of house and home,” he said.
Naimo British Columbia York said it is unlawful to interfere with traps, but if people do find them they should be reported immediately to conservation officers. York said there are live beaver traps available, but they are “remarkably ineffective” and when they do work it only means a beaver will end up being relocated into what is likely another beaver’s territory. Beavers are territorial. They are also a hazard to drainage and are not a conservation concern on Vancouver Island. “It’s just far more humane to use killing traps than it is to try and live-trap them,” York said.
WINFIELD, Indiana | Beavers continue to create problems in town by felling trees and building extensive dam structures in retention pondsAt the Sept. 24 Storm Water Board meeting, Clayton said licensed beaver trapper Tom Larson could remove the animals at a cost of $200 per beaver.
Jonesboro Arkansas: Rogers says animal control is not equipped to handle the beavers. The rodents can use their powerful jaws and teeth to chew through the toughest of steel traps.
Is it spring yet? There are more where that came from but that’s all I can stand at the moment. Here’s some lovely “glass half-full” moments to improve your mood.
Our own Cheryl Reynolds got to visit the little rescued kit at Sonoma Wildlife yesterday. She held him and fed him strawberries and filmed while he took down the “ramp” in his tank and tried to use it as a floaty device. We Worth A Dam folks are understandably a bit jealous, as you might imagine. I wrote her yesterday and helpfully quoted Luke 12:48.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.
Just sayin’. Go donate to buy this little fellow more strawberries, medicine, cottonwood branches and whatever else he needs. We can give this little fellow a new start and we should. And thanks Cheryl, for giving us a ringside seat to his big adventure.
