Drought And Beavers

[togor]

The western drought is making people stop and take notice of beavers....in a good way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/climate/climate-change-beavers.html?unlocked_article_code=L8ec47ud0Y-FXAxwS2z0ZUpeqC9qNZCc0pWdWfkPjaEildipwkcOQ0vkWYNfD U9ePWkJMtmsNe5sRcfgRv4GTFUZba3Xh4KFyVTDX68sKxISAcB oIZt-SAXGmvFbSnek5CuZy3OqkncjKWa-BfMWRu8vZ--pwXFP2-OVYStqI3QavFcIMmAF3qOkp4Ar2T9-GdktzBqgviO9ACQ-LX_2bGej-Pzg1hvd4rYfh9h0cxYgl0QNzeTk43HpU35Ka5_j5VqigP7mTFp D90D0xqZcqjR_-P6tP1ZY7NgX3MwuRlgerBGjsEuBEtJHkptCXZg6n6ZfhxmiF-HQyB8DWVw-sQ&smid=share-url



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT5W32xRN4

[barretcreek]

Nice video. Various groups in the local community have built beaver dam analogs on public and private lands as part of the sage grouse restoration programs.

https://quiviracoalition.org/techguides/

There's all kinds of great ideas in here for how to plan a road, prevent runoff, small water saving dams. Meza Lunas are a great way to spend a day with kids outdoors and show them how a plan can materialize over several seasons.

This outfit has put on good workshops and the Nature Conservancy has teams of field workers building riparian projects.

Thanks for the video.

The information on that link is useful for any size property which has water. Snow melt, rain runoff or standing water after a heavy rain. Doesn't have to be 'acreage' a city lot may benefit.

[Johnny P]

They needed a few beavers to operate the water utilities in Jackson, Mississippi. The water infrastructure was in shambles, needed repairs put off, and allocated money spent on pet projects. Have a friend that did live in Jackson, but moved north of town. He said the water system in Jackson had been hanging on by a thread, and the heavy rains caused a domino effect on the system.

[Merc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1l4aiz/a_wonderful_response_to_a_letter_from_the/

Beavers are being harassed by the state of Pennsylvania.

[togor]

I know a guy in MN with a stream running through his deer hunting land, with beavers on the stream. Haven't talked to him in a few years, but for awhile there he said he was fighting the beavers, trying to blow up their dams etc. Seems they flooded one section which he wanted put in CRP (for the tax break), and another section where he paid to have a food plot put in. The other thing he said is that his cams caught sight of a huge buck, which he could never get at because it stayed deep in the wet.

He paid for the land, pays taxes on it, so it's his to do with it what he will. You try to give a person a little more information, so they can see that there's a different way to get what they want. In his case, more deer. Maybe I'll ping him and see how the war goes or if he made his peace. :)

[togor]

They needed a few beavers to operate the water utilities in Jackson, Mississippi. The water infrastructure was in shambles, needed repairs put off, and allocated money spent on pet projects. Have a friend that did live in Jackson, but moved north of town. He said the water system in Jackson had been hanging on by a thread, and the heavy rains caused a domino effect on the system.

Apparently the money went to welfare checks for Brett Favre instead.

[Johnny P]

Apparently the money went to welfare checks for Brett Favre instead.

Not unless Brett Favre and the mayor are brothers.

[dryheat]

It's a tough and frustrating life. You knaw for a couple of hours on a tree. You have to drag the thing out to the water. Figure out what your going to do with it and put it to use. Thousands of times over, swimming at a 1/2 per mile an hr. Then when everything is looking good someone blows your home up. Start all over. Ah,boy. No loan forgiveness, nothing. Beavers can't write, so, no long winded diatribe about their tough life. But, I don't think beavers are our saviours.

[Allen]

It's a tough and frustrating life. You knaw for a couple of hours on a tree. You have to drag the thing out to the water. Figure out what your going to do with it and put it to use. Thousands of times over, swimming at a 1/2 per mile an hr. Then when everything is looking good someone blows your home up. Start all over. Ah,boy. No loan forgiveness, nothing. Beavers can't write, so, no long winded diatribe about their tough life. But, I don't think beavers are our saviours.

Same with spiders and their webs, ants and their ant hills. I guess that's why ants are always pissed. We're lucky beavers don't operate in large numbers like the ants----we might have a problem then.