City of Ottawa accused of 'ongoing hate' for beavers

[MikePal]

Would appear not all trappers are hurting for work !!

The city spent $128,075 in 2020 and $89,288 in 2019 to hire licensed trappers, but Dubreuil argues a flow device would be cheaper, costing $2,000 to reduce flooding in the area around a beaver dam. That strategy could also reduce other long-term costs of monitoring and maintenance, she added.

Residents near the Goulbourn Wetland Complex in the west-end suburb of Stittsville, where the Trans-Canada Trail runs to the west of West Ridge Drive, say trappers have targeted beavers in their area.

Ann Swanwick said beavers have not caused flooding on the trail and the area "would be the ideal place for a beaver population."

"The city just have this ongoing hate of beavers ... they're here and then they're gone," Swanwick said.

"We want the trapping and killing stopped. We want them to consult the experts on alternative means of dealing with the beaver."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ling-1.6210757

[MihajloSimsic]

They're coming south en masse. Except they're not building houses, they're digging in ditches and banks like muskrats. Soon the same property owners that shooed you off their porch will be shuffling through all their drawers looking for your phone number you left them.

[Deer Hunter]

Millions of dollars is spent yearly on repairing infrastructure damage across Canada due to Beavers.
Trappers can’t continue trapping with the current fur market. At this stage, it’s coming out of their pockets. Trappers around here are waiting for the municipality’s, CN, CP and the forest industry to hire them to take care of nuisance beavers. Most time it’s after a major road washout. It’s only going to get worse.
IMO MNRF need to come out with a guaranteed flat rate per beaver to cover quota trapping. They also need to make sure the beavers trapped are the ones close to any infrastructure.

[sevennine]

I agree with Deer Hunter, it's a small price to pay compared to fixing washed out roads and repaving. These animal protection groups are always going to target trapping. If ever trapping gets banned, hunting will be their next target.

[Gilroy]

Major problem up my way the older trappers have mostly retired, younger trappers are pretty hard to find.

[Sam Menard]

There’s a guy who used to be a bear outfitter in Jellico that patented a conical device that is affixed to culverts https://beavercone.com/beavercone/. The devices work well to keep beavers from plugging culverts, but do nothing from stopping them from building dams immediately upstream. Beavers are a renewable resource, and you are never rid of them forever.

[MikePal]

I have water conservation area, some call it a swamp ) at the front of my acreage that was full of beavers when I moved in. It took about 4 yrs (yielding about 20 carcasses ) to eradicate them. They are amazingly resilient to eviction

I built a similar device to that professional screen that allowed the water to move thru the culvert. The Township had given me a grate, but the beaver used to pack it full of mud, in less than 24 hrs. I ran about 6' of PVC pipe drilled full of holes thru the grate and out into the water. Worked well. They never figure out how to plug the holes.

They haven't moved back in over 10 yrs.

[Gun Nut]

Would appear not all trappers are hurting for work !!



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ling-1.6210757

There is a simple solution relocate the people and leave the place to the beavers. Facing that alternative they may change their mines about further consulting experts.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

[Deer Hunter]

There’s a guy who used to be a bear outfitter in Jellico that patented a conical device that is affixed to culverts https://beavercone.com/beavercone/. The devices work well to keep beavers from plugging culverts, but do nothing from stopping them from building dams immediately upstream. Beavers are a renewable resource, and you are never rid of them forever.

Yes, I’ve seen those used, they help for sure..