Beaver Coexistence
When beaver interact with human infrastructure, they can be nuisances.
Arable Earth is a certified BeaverCorps member and has completed the training in beaver conflict management and flow device construction under Mike Callahan through the Beaver Institute.
Tree Damage
THE ISSUE: Beaver will take down trees for food and building materials. Usually this is an issue in residential or suburban areas with planted or highly valued individual trees.
THE SOLUTION: Protecting trees by wrapping them in wire mesh. Installing 2”x4” wire mesh cylinders with a minimum of a 3”-6” gap around the base of tree trunks. This keeps the beaver from accessing the trees, when done properly it’s 100% effective.
Blocked Road Culverts and Drains
THE ISSUE: Beaver damming a culvert, irrigation headgate, or similar structure.
THE SOLUTION: A fence installed in a specific way to prevent beaver from damming a culvert – built with enough surface area and strength to tolerate some damming. Fencing can be used where there is little to no tolerance for upstream flooding.
Control Beaver Dam Flooding
THE ISSUE: Flooding from damming is too high and threatening some form of infrastructure.
THE SOLUTION: Fence and pipe devices allow beaver to have some ponding while limiting the height of the water to a safe level.
Install a small exclusion fence directly on structure with a pond leveler pipe that controls the height of the dam. End of pipe is fitted with a fence “filter”. Pool depth must be at least three feet for device to be effective. am flooding.
