Specializing in removing beaver and their dams
Beaver Trapping
Trapping
The first step to successful beaver trapping is a survey of the stream, river, pond, or lake with the beaver problems. We will go through the area by boat usually and look for activity such as feeding areas and territorial mound markers. Then lodges both bank dens and traditional stick built lodges to estimate how many beaver are in the area. The most import portion is the beaver dams themselves size, extensions, and placement. we then develop a plan for the number and type of traps needed to successful remove the beaver from the problem area.
Removal
The traps will need to be checked at least three times to catch the majority of the beaver. Depending on the time of year this number can be much higher and previously trapped beaver become trap wise and are harder to catch. During the summer snakes, turtles, weeds, crops in the fields, and other problems to work around make it harder to trap. Winter is the preferred trapping time with dam removal in the spring.
Lowering the water level
Our targetgoal in most beaver trapping is to lower the water level return the stream back to its stream bed. We manually remove the dams or unplug culverts. Explosives cause issues and can not be used near power lines, roads, or bridges. We put the water back in its original stream bed and because we have trapped the beaver maintain the removed dams to ensure they can not rebuild for a period of time. 6 months initially and then a year maintenance program thereafter.
