Cherish your attitude, see where the possibilities are in using beaver to offset drought. Apart from the excitement of actually seeing/knowing beavers on your property, there could be a real win-win. Thank you for showing how you work it out.
Great video. Beavers are a major part of a healthy ecosystem. They help with so many things and one of the major problems they help mitigate is fire. They recharge ground water to keep trees and shrubs green as well as raid the humidity so embers don't ignite as easily as they do in our current altered tinderbox Forrests in the west.
Great video. Thank you. Here in Britain we live in one of the most nature-deprived places in the world - I guess that's what industrialising early and then cramming 65 million people into a place that comfortably fits into Michigan does. We are slowly introducing beavers into closely managed enclosures on nature reserves, but in Scotland truly wild beavers do exist (likely an illegal release some years ago) and they are thriving. But many farmers are vocally opposed to their spread. Its good to see farmers in the US carefully weighing up the pros and cons of having beavers on their land, but I wonder how many farmers consider how the financial support wider society provides makes their business possible. In the UK us townies subsidise rural services (from postal services to health care) and then give the farmers money just for existing. All of this is OK, but what sometimes rankles is the oft heard cry: 'this is our land, our business so stop interfering'. Subsidies are changing in the UK to get farmers to be more environment-friendly but many are resistant. Its hard sometimes to see wealthy landowners being given - literally - millions of pounds in tax payer subsidy when young people in towns and cities are denied youth services.
Put a line of posts in several feet from the culvert.... the beavers will oblige and make the dam in the new location... you can get creative and lay some long pipe parallel with the river flow down between the pipes and the beaver will make the dam on the pipes... but that's optional.... do the post thing if you don't want em jamming up the culvert
One beaver( Castor canadensis) is great, but it can take two to raise a family. Witnessing a bank lodge beaver in Yankton, SD. I personally gleaned year- long exposure to a family, who I witnessed feed, nurse, and on occasions witness the pair together as busy as a family can be. Feeding on Fremont cottonwoods while simultaneously nursing her kits sounding like babies naturally. I saw her come in nervously with limb, she seemed good with me, submerged, mysteriously entered lodge and heard the action. Not only did they always capture my attention, I learned to fish from nearby woody structure, Spring bringing them into spawn. All aspects of their lifestyles seemed keenly suited for this family life, where local shores, deciduous sprout shooting trees are aided in some forms of propagation by the beavers also. Wood ducks ( Aix sponsa ) had a local cavity nest in an accompanying cottonwood stand and another local resident. Finding cavities can be a test for this Native bird. Beavers in this area store woody forage materials under the ice for winter, they stimulate shoot formation, and all this woody debris is sustenance for the myriad of Mayflies hatching, cottonwood silk, and all those tangible memories. Point being, caves, alcoves, large stumps, can be used as strata for living arrangements of Beaver family including a beaver lodge or bank style which could be a cave, underlying roots of large trees, or other bank habitat that allows for escape cover, deeper water column for escape and survival purposes.
Simply mix up exterior PVA glue, and sand, and paint the bottom of trees you want to protect. Beavers won't bother those trees. America needs to recover its landscapes, and 100 million beavers would go a long way towards doing that.
Since the 1960s Mgr’s have been touting the positive effect of beavers. Thank God People are waking up to this mgt technique. Or should we just realize ~ this is how nature intended it. ( thst hay and those hobby horses are worth more than those natural ecosystems w salmon. Right ?
As as a retired Alaska Commercial fisherman, I'm extremely interested in the cycle of Anadromous fish & Restoration. How do the smolts & adult fish navigate over/through the beaver dams ? .... What have you observed and witnessed ? ... Thank you.
Beaver dams are not solid. There are fish passages through the dams and channels around the edges. If you search for "Riverscape Restoration Design Manual Utah State University, beaver, fish", it should take you to a whole section of academic experiments and research into beavers and fish. There is a large PDF manual to download. The page starts out with the following paragraph which will show you are in the right place. "A review by Kemp et al (2012) revealed that many of the perceived impacts of beaver dams on fish are based on conjecture and hearsay. This is not to suggest that there are never negative impacts on fish, just that perceptions amongst fish biologists and managers have strong bias."
REFORESTAR REFORESTAR árboles nativos para que VUELVA el ciclo de vida. Por nuestros ANIMALES Flora y fauna. Los árboles regulan la temperatura en la corteza TERRESTRE. Resguardan las NAPAS SUBTERRÁNEAS. DÓNDE hay árboles hay agua. REFORESTAR REFORESTAR árboles nativos. PRIORIDAD para todos los países del mundo.
Ya, I like the story. But the pictures don't match. Hi, Karen here. lol But really, the pictures show where the beavers were but the damns are all blown out. The beavers are gone. If the beavers were there when they were filming on the ranch it would be obvious. Bring in new Beavers please.
