Beavers have set up shop just upstream of my driveway, which via a culvert crosses a stream. Twice I've gone chest deep in cold water and mud to clear the culvert when they clogged it and sent the stream over my driveway. Last week they dropped a 10" tree across the driveway and took out my power and phone lines. Today we have regional flooding, and I see tonight that they've clogged my culvert yet again and the water's about a foot deep in my driveway.
Conventional response is to trap and kill them, which I've been resisting but it's come to the point where I just don't know if letting them be is feasible. I've read that trapping and releasing is seldom effective given territorial fighting.
What should I do?
Conventional response is to trap and kill them, which I've been resisting but it's come to the point where I just don't know if letting them be is feasible. I've read that trapping and releasing is seldom effective given territorial fighting.
What should I do?