Beaver dam

[gregintenn]

We went to check on a treestand my youngest son and I plan to hunt from next Saturday, and saw this dam constructed near it. There have been beavers in the creek for several years now, but this is the first dam I've seen them complete before it got washed away by storm water. I guess we'll be watching beavers instead of deer next weekend.

You can't tell from the angle of the picture, but the water level above the dam is 3-4 feet higher than below.

Edited October 21, 2012 by gregintenn

[buck1032]

Thats a cool picture. Do you plan on leaving the dam in place? (Just wondering)

[Garufa]

Beaver seaon is year round, no limit.

[gregintenn]

It won't be removed unless it washes out in a flood. Wouldn't hurt anything if it flooded the entire hollow. We enjoy watching them. I wouldn't want to shoot them.

[Mdunntn]

I think it would be neat to hunt/trap some beaver. I've only seen one dead on the side of the road in union county, never have seen another one.

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[peejman]

Look for the clear paths through the water from the dam to the bank, that's were you'll see them.

[DaveS]

We have a beaver on one of our trout streams and he is really messing up the flow. Myself and USFWS Officer Curtis has pulled this dam apart several times, and the old "flattail" builds it back bigger and better each time. We have some EOD guys coming in (stream is on Fort Campbell) to "do the deed". I smell C-4 !

Dave S

Edited October 22, 2012 by DaveS

[Guest Riverrat]

Leave the beavers alone, goat taste better and easier to catch.

[ttocswob]

I've had a running battle with the dam beavers (you know, the kind that build dams) for the past year. They keep trying to dam up the spillway on my father's pond. I guess 4 acres of pond isn't enough! I shot one, after that they went nocturnal. So I finally put in a battery powered electric fencer, with fence wire about 3 inches off the water. Working so far, except once when I let the batteries run down.

[JAB]

I've never tried eating the critters but I remember reading somewhere that fur trappers used to eat 'beaver steaks'. Basically, they would skin the tail and cook it like a steak. Supposed to be pretty good eating - and just about the only part of the animal worth eating.

[monkeylizard]

It was either on "Into The Wild" or "Survivorman" that I saw something about that. The tail is loaded with rich fat. It looked kind of like a well marbled ribeye steak, but without the ribeye