We've become beavers worst nightmare...

They'll adapt, after they have a building battle for a while....lol. :-)

That's not a nice thing to do is it ?
Are they pests then ?

O my FL !!! Beavers In UK r being put back into our Rivers as they became Extitct here for many years :( 4 more Imformation on Beavers in Uk go 2 http:/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4380276.stm Many Thanx Jacque

But they do wreak havic on the natural environment and the natural flow of the waterways...

Don't worry Jacque,
breaking this dam doesn't hurt them in anyway, actually it gives them something to do,....lol. They'll just build this dam back everytime we tear it down. Otherwise they would just be building about five or six more dams on the lake. They have at least six dams built on our lake already, and we've counted eight underwater dens where they live. Their problem is they don't know when to quit and be happy with what they have. Their instinct is to chew down alot of our trees growing along the edges of our lake and dragging them out to make a new dams. So we decided that we would keep them busy in one spot so they would leave the rest of the lake alone.

Some years ago had a holiday in Canada and locals thought I was crazy wanting to see a beaver and its dam.They showed me one and the level of devastion they can inflict - love wildlife but do understand controls are sometimes necessary esp as other species may suffer if left unchecked.

The American Beaver is More Distructive than the UK Beaver Bonkers ,U can read all about our UK Beaver On The Web Site above which is posted in Reply i gave earlier2day :D Just Copy&Paste :)

Glad to hear they are much more behaved than ours Jacque. I was afraid you might have been sorry for reintroducing them into your lakes ten years from now. Hopefully now, after hearing this, that will not be the case.

Thanx FL the 1s their releasing back into the wild will only be kept in the Area They are returned 2its 2 see how returning Beavers back2wild goes :)

Oh sure they ll be closely observed Jacque weren t some filmed on Springwatch earlier this year ? The amount of timber they can move in US/Can is truly amazing - fortunately the size of these countries allows a large degree of tolerance.

Wouldn t mind a few up here to make a start on those larch trees.

Looks like prime crappie/bass area there with the pickerel weed and the deadheads (logs).....Bonkers! Please don't bad mouth my poor larch trees! they are useful as their logs contain resins that are natural preservers. HOWEVER, you are spot on about the rodent! the beaver prefer the trees least used for construction...poplar, willow scrub, ash....but they will chew anything they like...My father had a wood lot with a little boggy lake...pitcher plants,Maple, Birch, Poplar, willow, Tsuga, and spruce around it and then the beaver (protected species) came along and their meadow killed the maples...he had to get a special permit to trap them...and never really did succeed in discouraging them... he'd rip out their dam and before he left for home they'd have it half repaired!! We have muskrat and beaver, two aquatic rodents that are fine in a perfect wilderness..but it's the old encroachment of man story!

Hubby said they already have the dam repaired, and that it is bigger and better than ever...lol Hubby said he would go out in the boat and take a photo of it for me. He's dieing to show me how hard I worked for nothing....lol.

Learn to live with it, Flcrazy! they never lose! infact they would probably clap their little flipper tails watching you having a coronary trying to pull out all the mud and debris!! blighters!

Lori if we had a country the size of yours I m sure I could live with larch trees too . Because of their speed of growth they have replaced traditional woodland areas and to make matters worse you say beavers dont like them ?

So if we had beavers here theyd gnaw almost anything else first?
Im not talking a few trees I m talking tens of thousands in forestry plantations the needles drop in such a thick carpet that little grows between them ( another plus for forestry maintenace) .

They make fence panels here out of larch designed to blow over at the first puff of wind.Nope sorry regard them as wooden weeds here.Our traditional English scene of spring bluebells under broad leaf woods has become scarce due to this invasion .All sites with them now protected illegal to pick flowers or walk through them.Guess you could say Im larch enemy no 1 !

Well now that you've explained BB...I can sympathize...save us from all the bright ideas that conservationists and entreprenuers like to foist on us...over here in the wilderness of the northern reaches they grow happily beside streams, along with the poplars, birches, willows and ash.(beaver food)..All are fast growing trees that come first in the wave of reforestation.. The larches will always have a home in the north... their needles are great acidifiers if you have rhodos. I rake up the needles and transport them to my one little rhodo in the front garden.. If the rodents got to like them they'd build dams that would never rot away and what a mess we'd have... beaver hats would have to come back into fashion.