Little buggers took over our irrigation diversion dam over winter. Had to get an excavator to clean it out. Suppose we will need to kill the willows (food supply) to run them off!
We see docos here of busy damming beavers... Leon has his very own dam builders ! Time to bring in Dam buster pilot Karoley to drop his bouncing gps bombs....Preset to detonate at the prescribed x,y,z coordinate....
RADU
don't get rid of the food source. get rid of the beavers!
they ain't really that smart....
I heard that you simply anchor a raft with a sound system in the middle of the pond and play a recording of the sound of rushing water and they will spend all their time covering the raft with sticks.
Just be careful
Several years ago we had a survey crew get in SERIOUS trouble with the State Wildlike Commission and the Department of Natural Resources for breaking a beaver dam so we could As-Built a sewer line. BUT if you have a dam appear destroy it as soon as possible. It COULD create wetlands which then become protected.
Andy
Just be careful
Actually, our river distribution commissioner called and said the state would pay for the beaver dam removal. We been fighting th beavers for years plugging the works. Water is King in Utah, you shouldn't mess with the river but maintaining an irrigation diversion is just standard practice.
For awhile we had a beaver trapper that worked the river (with state permission). Seems maybe the pelts don't pay now or whatever.
I'm thinking about helping them get a dam started say 50 feet upstream. Then they wouldn't bother us except they possibly could divert the whole stream around us.
As long as they need to eat they will cut willows and stick in where they her the water running.
In the top video the gate structure and wheel looks like the Beavers have Excalibur stuck in their dam.
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