“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams!”
Bill Vaughan
Beavers are referred to as “Engineers of Nature.” Unlike other animal beavers also play important role in preserving ecosystem by building dams to control flooding in monsoon and also as storing water for summer. Beavers are truly incredible creatures!
They are the second largest rodents found in Northern Hemisphere such as in North America, Europe and Asia where they are close to humans. Beavers have large head and paddle shaped broad tail. In a variety of aquatic habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands, these creatures can be found. They are active in their ponds throughout the winter season also. As they are herbivores, they prefer to eat leaves, tree barks, roots and aquatic plants. Sometimes they even found eating some cultivated crops such as potatoes, mushroom, berries and soybean. Even if river banks or lakes are buried by them, they still create a living hood on it by building the dams. Even by using their sharp teeth and powerful jaws they gnaw tress and create logs. Even though they are marvel in engineering but indeed they are frustration of farmers and locals. Let’s look onto some evidences.
Farmer troubles with beaver dam
Franklin County, IL | January 09, 2019
Farmers near wetlands say beaver dams have been a problem forever. In fact, a man died recently in Washington County, Missouri while trying to clear a beaver dam by hand, according to the county sheriff. Those situations all come from the way beaver dams affect waterways. Delehunt said when they build dams; it slows the water flow, allowing water to rise. This builds up pressure and can completely wash away pathways and flood roads.
For the farmer, Hood said these problems are detrimental to crop yield. The overflowing water ways can flood fields making it impossible to take heavy farm equipment on them, break levees and do the same things, or blow out levees on rivers and fill fields with large debris. On top of that, Hood said beavers will also steal grains like corn and soybeans to store for food.
Beavers cause flooding around Guskie Pond
Monroe | July 26, 2020
Animal Control Officer Ed Risko carried a chainsaw, while wading into the water of Guskie Pond Thursday morning. A large pipe, which had allowed water to flow through a dam of sticks and mud, had been moved away by beavers, causing flooding in the surrounding neighborhood. Risko dug away debris and cut a log atop the pipe, freeing it, so it could be moved back into place.
This was the secondary dam. Beyond it, the pond widened. Further from the spot, a little ways passed an area of lily pads, larger piles of sticks cutting across the pond formed the main dam. Beavers moved into Monroe in 1992, building their first dam at Hattertown and Judd roads, according to Risko. Since then, Risko has been placing vent pipes, which are called water level control devices, in beaver dams throughout town to alleviate property damage from flooding.
“The only way the state allows us to control beavers is to control the water level,” he explained. Risko has been called back to Guskie Pond, located along Huntingtown Road, several times over the years. Beavers first moved there in 1994. Aside from causing tree and flood damage for area residents, beavers caused a section of Huntingtown Road to collapse, a little over a decade ago, when they built a lodge beneath the street.
In 2011, Masuk student Matthew Morabito, a Boy Scout with Troop 163, worked with Risko to come up with a design to get water flowing through the main dam for his Eagle Scout Project. It involved the installation of five pipes. It solved flooding problems for a while, but it has become a problem once again. One of locals said, “This has caused a serious problem to our property. We have lost quite a bit of our land that has become flooded and under water also drawing more mosquitoes. The water has come so far up our property that out electric fence is now under water.”
Busy beaver causes outage for more than 10,000 in Aroostook County
Caribou | December 21, 2020
A “very ambitious beaver” chewed down a tree between Fort Kent and Frenchville on Dec. 21, resulting in a power outage that left more than 10,000 in Aroostook County without power, according to Versant spokesperson Judy Long.
By 3:55 p.m., roughly half an hour after the outage first occurred, 2,389 customers in Fort Kent were without power, representing more than 98 percent of the town’s customers. Additionally the outage affected 1,943 in Madawaska, 785 in Caribou, 746 in Eagle Lake and 620 in Frenchville.
Versant spokesperson Judy Long said they were able to isolate the area where the fault originated and get all customers back online within a couple hours. The next morning, crews conducted a patrol of the area and found that the outage was caused by a tree that had fallen on a transmission line between Frenchville and Fort Kent. And In the process of removing the tree and getting things repaired, workers discovered the beaver’s marks on the tree, and determined that the large rodent was responsible for the downed line.
Basically beavers reside near residential area as long the conditions are favorable for them. So to avoid any flooding or other damages like power outage, damaging crops or trees and to balance ecosystem, it is essential to keep them away rather than culling them!
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