Try these methods:
Keep them out!
- Fence small critical areas such as culverts, drains, or other structures.
- Install barriers around important trees in urban settings.
Change their habitat
(You will need a watercourse and wetlands alteration permit.)
- Eliminate foods, trees, and woody vegetation where feasible.
- Install a Clemson beaver pond leveller, three-log drain, or other structural device to maintain a lower pond level and avoid further pond expansion. (perforated PVC pipe)
- Beaver dams may be removed once the beavers are no longer present.
- Continued destruction of lodges, bank dens, and dams, where legal, will occasionally move young colonies out of an area.
Trapping
- Body-gripping traps.
- Restraining traps used in drowning sets.
- Basket / suitcase type traps are primarily used for live trapping.
- Snares can be useful, particularly in dive sets and slides where legal.
Other methods rarely solve a beaver damage problem and may increase risks to humans and other species. |
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