Beaver

[George]

In Indiana the Beavers are not to be disturbed but you can protect your property.

I'm glad I only have one creek big enough for them. When I find a new dam I use a backhoe and distroy as much as possible ( if you tear a 10' wide section down to the bottom it will move a lot of water - - - the first time I did this I almost lost the backhoe ) then wait about a week and repeat - - - It usually takes about 4 or 5 times before the building materials are depleted and they move on. The good part of this is with the trees gone they will not come back to that area for several years.

This does not sound like a solution for you - - - I hope some of the other post will help you.

They can sure be distructive but if you get in there with a backhoe and start tearing apart their handi work you will gain a respect for their work. I find it quit amasing how good they can build!

 

[Silver]

They are good builders. We used to drive a pipe into their hut, make sure the pipe was clean inside, come back a day later and drop a stick of dynamite in. Don't know how many we killed that way but I was always amazed at how little damage was done to the hut. All the dynamite would do was shake it a bit and that was it.
I've killed and skinned alot of the little devils in my time, and I don't believe there is a way to get rid of them for more than a short period of time. As long as there is food and habitat for them, they'll be back.
One spring I took over 100 of them from a 1 mile stretch of creek at home. Within a year you'd never know I'd done a thing.
We tried the culvert with the ninety on it and it worked reasonably well, til they built another dam right below it.
One thing about the little buggers, on a dry year like this a guy appreciates the water stored in those dams.