[Hotmetal]

“Their dams are also good because they slow the flow of water leading to less drought and less flooding.”

I have to disagree on the less flooding,they have dammed a creek near my land and caused the creek to backup and flood my pines.Now they have started cutting the pines. Every year we have break the dam and they always build back. I don't like these critters much.

[OldMissileer]

A 22-250 at 300 yards works for me! :-)

[BIGLOOK]

There was a beaver dam on a creek on my great uncle's dairy farm, it had been there for centuries and had created a peat bog of about 50 acres.

But the real problem for my great uncle's farm and the adjacent farms was the bigger the bog, the more beavers, the bigger the dam until it started flooding the pastures.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the farmers trapped the beavers to control them and sell the pelts. But in the mid 20th century, the gov't sided with the beavers and trapping was severely limited.

'Rats are rodents too.

[Daffynition]

My sympathies. I saw an episode on Discovery, where the loggers [Pellitiers?] took out a beaver dam b/c it was flooding the road they used to get the timber to the mill. It was funny b/c all the while you know the enviro-weinies/PETA types were having a fit!

[calex59]

Bring back Beaver hats!

[Hot Tabasco]

Every year we have break the dam and they always build back. I don't like these critters much.

A few years ago there was a damn across the water shed drain on the east side of my complex. I enjoyed watching them work and was dismayed when one of the residents called the DNR who came in, trapped the beavers then destroyed the damn. The reasoning was to protect against the road being flooded in the event of a big rain.

Turned out to be the right decision since 4 weeks later we did get the big rain and the water from the water shed came up almost to the road. Had the damn still been there, it would have been a major problem......

Beavers belong in the wilderness, not within subdivisions........