May be true there. I've never seen a beaver damn (spelling on purpose) in my life. They just cut down trees and eat the cambium, then the next flood all those trees wash out any and every fence near the creeks. For some reason they don't make damns here. If it wasn't for the trees in the creek bottoms we basically wouldn't have trees. I like beavers a little less than I like turtle rats.
Good point. And all the concrete and asphalt causing water to go exactly where we want it to. It no longer permeates and saturates the soils like it did.
Our beaver "dams" are only a few inches tall usually. They will dam up a small riffle to make the pool above a little deeper. Our creeks usually have the riffle/pool/run structure that doesn't require a dam anyway. They burrow in the mud banks right at or just below the water line.
Are those this year's sheds? They look a bit chalky in the pics.
Yesterday's sheds were all old. Luckily they dropped in the middle of a hillside pasture where there's no squirrels or rats, just cattle. I think I found 2 from the same buck but from different years, within 30yds of each other. And I think I have 2yrs of sheds from the same buck that I found fresh. Adds up to possibly 4yrs (or more) of history with this deer and his sheds. And I think I found his (shed) skull on my walk out but since I found the sheds on my walk back I didn't get to compare them.
Good enough for me. If they aren't building new ponds and they're actively wiping out what few trees you have, i'd say you've got the right idea in mind. If they're also leaving debris that's gonna make days of fence repair, they gots to go.
