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I have 3 beavers that are getting on my nevers and are taking down some really good trees. Does anyone have any ideas to getting rid of them. I don't want to trap them. If I tear out the dam will they move on down the creek to another farm? Is it legal to shoot them!
 
call a game warden and see if you can get a permit to get rid of them. otherwise get someone to trap them out for you. usually if a beaver finds a good spot for a dam they will keep rebuilding in the same area. at least that's the experience i had with them.
 
thanks muddy- they are getting on my last nerve. I would'nt mind them but they are taking some good hardwood trees. I would'nt mind a having a beaver pelt.
 
this is extra work but you could go down and use chicken wire to fence off all hardwood trees along your creek too. that will keep them from chewing them off and also keep you from having to eliminate them. granted, if you wire them off they'll probably just move farther off the stream and take more trees. good luck.
 
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Thats a good idea Muddy. I have used old wooden snow fence to protect some of the better trees. Remember, whatever you use to go around the trees keep it loose. I thought the only way to get rid of beavers was to kill them. Attempting to relocate does not work, they will only find their way back. Anyone else konw different?
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'Bonker - i am positive that if you contact the DNR they will either help you or allow you to get rid of the dam. as far as disturbing them otherwise...i don't know...i do know that if you rip a few logs out and let the water level down you can really catch them big time that next night when they come back to repair it!!
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all4s - yeah, you're right, i forgot to mention that if you protect yoru trees to give them some slack each year otherwise they'll constrict themselves off and die anyway. good spot.
 
yea muddy, I think that might be the best solution. When coming out of the timber in the evening I would see them swimming around. That might be the best time to ......well you know!
 
If they are destroying your property just go shoot them.If you are worried about getting in trouble get a fur bearers license then do it.Beaver season is open for a while isn't it....
 
Trapping them is the only way to get rid of the problem. Fencing will work to a point.....but they will just go alittle further to chew down some other trees. I have seen beavers travel considerable distances to chew down trees....and rather large trees as well.
 
Years back before I was hurt. I was driving home in april on a main highway with no water within miles it was night around 9.00 p.m. and all of a sudden I hit something. Thought it was a coon. I turned around to see what it was. It was a crazy beaver. Called dnr and he gave me a permit to keep him because season was over. Pretty crazy. Them hairy critters sure do travel far to find water.

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I hate beavers with a passion, those things do more crop damage then the dang deer do, I would try to trap them if the season was still open. the only thing that can be good having beavers is the deer usually start crossing there, or the backside where it is alot shallower. putting something around the trees might be a good idea though
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season is still open tell april 15 i think thats the right day 15 or the 14 im not sure this year! i say go ut with a spotlight at night and shine out there and shoot them with a shotgun it works
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I know how I would handle it. 3-30 conibear or 12 gauge with 00 buck. They are neat to watch but they will destroy a creek-bottom in a short period of time. Just cotact the DNR as noted above and let them know the situation.
 
Throw some dynomite in thier little nest that will cure it.or do things legal and call dnr and they will probably have a trapper come in and live trap them... I actually had a female beaver released in my pond in ny and she has had several litters. Ilike them even if they cut down all my trees
 
you can disturb beaver dams on your land. i would tear a notch in the damn, and set a 330 conibear in front of that notch. put it at the botton edge of the notch so it will remain under water when the level drops. when the level drops you can go upstrean and look for den holes in the bank, set a 330 infront of every hole. look for slide runs on the bank, and set snares there. the day you notch the dam, go back that night and set and wait, and pop them with a shotgun. shooting/trapping beavers is legal until mid april. or, go to your local fur buyer and get the names of some beaver trappers, and turn them loose on 'em
 
Right now is the perfect time to get rid of a beaver dam. I just dug out 3 of them about two weeks ago with a 320 cat excavator. First you dig out the dam then smash the banks in. Most of the time the banks will freeze in before the beaver gets out if hes still alive. That ussually takes care of them for 3 or 4 years but sooner or later if its a good spot they will be back. Theres a $25.00 bounty on beaver here. They cost the drainage distict alot of money.
 
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Theres a $25.00 bounty on beaver here.

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I have been saying that for years, at least up until I got married
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