Posted on 04/07/2006 1:12:25 PM PDT by Abathar
I was hoping someone could answer a couple of questions I have on how to get rid of beaver out of a lake. I live in Indiana now but grew up in Michigan my whole life. Up there if you even look crosseyed at one the DNR will arrest you on the spot, so I was surprised when I called them here to get permission to live trap the d@mn things the officer just laughed and suggested I use dynamite on their home. He told me they were endangered once but since they brought them back our county has classified them as a nuisance. He told me if they were a problem just trap them or shoot them. The problem is they come out mostly at night, and the spillway the little b@stard keeps daming up is about 300 yards away from my back porch, and since they haven't started building a den yet I don't know where they sleep. I have to clean the stupid spillway up at least 3 times a week now, and I am getting pretty upset. If someone has some ideas not involving high explosives I sure would appreciate it.
Get yourself a, never mind, I was going to go long winded on ya, but here are Google links.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=trapping+beaver
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=what+size+trap+for+beaver
The route you take when you're comin' down here.
Or goin' down. =: O
If it were winter, I'd suggest waiting for a cold week and then wrecking the dam. Draining water out of the pond would let enough cold air into the den to freeze the beaver to death. I think that your best bet now is to either hire a trapper or to wreck the dam to the best of your ability and try to snipe them when they show up to fix it.
BEAVER, UT
Parody of Blondie's "Dreaming"
Lyrics by M. Spaff Sumsion
When - I met you in the Pentagon
I - could tell you were from Parowan
You said you'd like to know me
Your southern Utah homie
And I should move back east
No thanks 'cause I like Beaver
Beaver's for me
Beaver
Beaver, U-T
I - don't like the Sundance Festival
I - like old-time westerns best of all
I - share hometowns with Butch Cassidy
So any girlfriend has to be
Receptive when I say
I'm riding south for Beaver
Bea! Ver! All that I hope for!
Bea! Ver! Lemme into Cove Fort!
Nothing's finer
Than being a miner
Bea! Ver! Gonna spend the summer in
Bea! Ver! Let me drive my Hummer in
Color Country
(Whoo!) Beaver hunting
I - sit by and watch the traffic go
South - to Vegas, north to Idaho
It's here - the U.H.P. will bury ya
The Fillmore-Beaver area
So let's just take it slow
Getting into Beaver
Beaver is neat
Beaver
Beaver, U-T
Beaver (Be-e-e-eev)
Beaver is sweet (Be-e-e-eev)
Beaver, U-T
I hear it is used as a training manual over in Colorado City.
Put your shoulder to the Wheel...
Love at Home...
I know that my Redeemer lives...
I Hope they Call Me on a Mission...
HA! HA! That's classic, I'll have to share this one.
You have my permission to take the rest of the day off. Dell Tait just got here to turn on the ditch at the sluice...Crown Royale lid coming off. Budweiser from Arizona flowing. White wine in the fridge.
Come Come Ye Saints
Hurray! Hurray! I'm on my way! Meet you at the Fillmore/Beaver area. (I wish)
"Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I had it stuffed."
Eventually the illegal aliens will eat them.
Eating the critters Americans won't eat?
Wet Beaver Loop.
From this site: Arizona Hiking Trails
Cheers!
They haven't started building a home I can find yet, I think they are living underground.
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