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Post by trappnman on Mar 20, 2008 8:17:35 GMT -6
But most of your older dams have a tapering front and most of the time these dams don't lend them selves to this situation. Newer dams have deeper faces
we never, with rare exeptions, have dams that last longer than that year- 2 years would be rare, longer than that nope.
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Post by thebeav2 on Mar 20, 2008 15:53:42 GMT -6
The situations I run Into are the land owner wants the beaver gone but wants to keep the dam so he has duck hunting opportunities. so the Idiots leave a perfect place for the next pair to move In. But they love to hunt ducks. So I encounter the same dams year after year. It's good for me, and If the land owner Isn't concerned ,I sure don't lose any sleep over It.
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Post by marbleyez2001 on Mar 20, 2008 20:13:34 GMT -6
Interesting comment about getting the female on the top of the crossover...the two biggest beavers I have taken (spring females) both came off the top of the damn. Could tell you about the rest, as the beavers just get piled in the back of the truck, no idea of who came from where.
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Post by musher on Mar 21, 2008 4:39:18 GMT -6
An old dam and hut can last a long time here. If it is quiet water, the timespan is years.
It is illegal to remove a dam here if it makes a "habitat."
The logic is sound in that a beaver dam means small critters (frogs/fish) which can feed other stuff.
A beaver dam isn't just good for beaver. EVERY furbearer around here will check out a dam. It is prime location. They will also check out the hut, if the can get to it, but can always get to the dam.
Steve: Do you mean parallel or perpendicular?
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Post by trappnman on Mar 21, 2008 7:09:44 GMT -6
If it is quiet water, the timespan is years.
in my water, the timespan usually is in months.
build the dams in July- Sept... floods wash them away about now.
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