Beaver?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 13, 2009

Every year I shoot off the muskrats that come on my pond behind my house since they cause bank damage and I don't want to run the tractor into a hole and end up in the pond. This year I have a small beaver. What will it do? Will it tear up the banks? Will it cause me damage? I don't have moving water so their is nothing to dam. Thier is an ajasent 8 acre marsh and the pond is filled with gills and bass. Also my pond is about 2 acres and as deep as 20 feet.
Thanks in advance. Jray

Clodbuster · Mar 13, 2009

They will dig out huge holes. Kill it now. Well, right after you get a permit from Game and Parks first, of course.

cj in wisconsin · Mar 13, 2009

They don't care that much about running water, if you don't want damage KILL IT. If you don't want to waste it trim all the fat off the meat and barbeque it. Its good. I know I just set myself up for a bunch of beaver eating jokes but oh well.

jack harmon · Mar 13, 2009

well lets see they dont cause too much damage, but,neighbor used to scream to high heaven for us shooting those poor beavers,until he planted about ten fruit trees in his back yard and they cut every one of them down in one night! he doesn't say anything anymore for some reason.the others are right,get rid of them now.here you dont have to have a permit, but i'm sure regs vary.

plow hand · Mar 13, 2009

Some beavers can be friendly....

glennster · Mar 13, 2009

they will remove all your fruit trees, willow maple and any other tasty softwoods first. they will also take down corn and soy beans. if they are in your pond they will build a bank lodge along the shore. real nice to drop a tractor in. they love to plug up culverts, drainage ditches and we had one crawl up in a field tile and die. dug up quite a bit of tile to find it and fix it. google nusiance beavers. wound up getting a trapper to come out and remove them (too a safer place). he said the tails make good sausage.

cj in wisconsin · Mar 13, 2009

At Meisters by Stillwater?

ScottyHOMeY · Mar 13, 2009

You say you don't have any running water. Is your pond fed or does it drain into running water? If there's no running water, a beaver doesn't have much to live for. Not only do they hate the sound of running water, they live to build dams, to raise the water level so they can raise the dams to raise the water level to float more wood to raise the dams to raise the water level to float more wood . . .

No, they do not burrow, they build lodges in the water, with underwater entrances, so they shouldn't hurt your banks any. When they are actively cutting wood, about the only damage you'll see to the ground is the runs that they'll wear where they drag the wood down. Certainly no holes like a muskrat makes.

If your pond is just groundwater/spring fed with no inlet/outlet, I shouldn't expect any woodcutting, as the beaver would see no need for it -- no flowing water to stop up. Sounds more like a bachelor that got moved out of the lodge, just camping out until he finds a home of his own. I'd be surprised if he did any more than build a small lodge out of twigs before moving on.

If that marsh is really nearby, the larger group would likely have been at your trees already.

1936 · Mar 13, 2009

That one little beaver will cut most small trees near your pond for food and make a bank lodge. The sharp little pointy up cut offs will make short work off the rear tractor tires. First hand experience. Have it trapped out. The little guy will made some great den holes in your pond banks. Canada is over run with then. Good at destroying streans and fishing. Also in the U.P. of MI trout streams are taking a hit. Beaver is great but, not in the water.

glennster · Mar 13, 2009

scotty, here is a link that shows a bank lodge. beavers eat trees, eat the bark and young saplings and shoots. i had a bank lodge in my creek, after a flood, the whole thing collapsed.
click here

ScottyHOMeY · Mar 13, 2009

I'm livin' and learnin' all the time. Never seen one of those on the brooks up here, only because they mostly flood back into a flat meadow, so we see the stick lodges.

Goose · Mar 13, 2009

They have a lot of ambition, but not too much engineering sense. We've had them cut down trees (too big for them to move) 50 yards from any water.

Appears to me to be a situation for the three S's. Shoot, shovel, and silence.

plow hand · Mar 13, 2009

Stillwater has had their fair share of Beaver trouble down by the river....

Vito · Mar 13, 2009

Ask the Allis dude.

Vit

Dave from MN · Mar 13, 2009

Where theres one will soon be more. Have a trapper take him out. They will ruin your land.

fixerupper · Mar 13, 2009

Get rid of the varmint as soon as you can. An underground muskrat/beaver den collapsed under a front combine wheel when I was opening a field a few years ago.It stopped me on the spot and the end of the cornhead dug down into the ground. The only damage was a thrown gathering chain, but I hit the steering wheel pretty hard with my chest. I was wide awake for awhile after that one. Jim

Hoofer B · Mar 13, 2009

CJ, you don't like fat beaver either.

garytomaszewski · Mar 13, 2009

cj,
You know you are what you eat, becareful or you might end up a lessbian.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 13, 2009

I had the Natural Resource people here live trap them out and transfer them to where they could survive without being shot. They will do it for nothing if you show they are harming your land... IMHO It really is not your place to shot them especially so if there is a season on them in your State as they are then controlled and hence property of the State in which you reside.

case441 · Mar 13, 2009

Goose has it right, the 3 s's.

GeneMO · Mar 13, 2009

Back in college we would load up the 64 Chevy with guys, case of beer and binoculars, go behind the girls dorms and "shoot beaver"

Guess nowadays we would be called stalkers, predators, etc. Kinda seemed like harmless fun, even if our girlfriends did call us perverts.

He is living in the marsh and playing in your pond.
3-S's

Gene

buickddeere · Mar 14, 2009

Muskrats never hurt anybody.
The star of the canadian nickel is due for an "accident". Better if the accident happens in cold weather when the pelt is prime.

JMS/.MN · Mar 14, 2009

So what is the name of the sports teams at Bemidji State Univ, in Bemidji, MN? Beavers! Wasn"t a real issue when all the teams were male.

TimV · Mar 14, 2009

Bank beaver are very common here in NY--rather than build a dam and a lodge, they'll skip the dame entirely and burrow into the bank and use that as a lodge. It's most common on rivers where they don't need the water to be any higher than it already is in order to be able to escape from predators and drag food to the lodge.

plow hand · Mar 14, 2009

My brother inlaw taught there/???

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