Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Trapping to Protect Your Homestead” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/trapping-to-protect-your-homestead/.
Trapping to Protect Your Homestead
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Sld1959
Ronin
My uncle had a smallish lake on his property. We used to fish in it occasionally. One time we were out in the canoe just floating by the wind pushing us around having some sandwiches and pop while fishing and he was telling me about all the beaver sign he had been seeing recently.
I looked over and there was a huge poplar tree by the edge not 10 feet from where we had drifted to. The beaver had been chewing it and it looked like it was standing by a pencil width to me lol.
We got out of there as fast as we could paddle. With that wind we were lucky it had not broken and sent us right to the bottom for a watery grave with a tree on top us.
I looked over and there was a huge poplar tree by the edge not 10 feet from where we had drifted to. The beaver had been chewing it and it looked like it was standing by a pencil width to me lol.
We got out of there as fast as we could paddle. With that wind we were lucky it had not broken and sent us right to the bottom for a watery grave with a tree on top us.
Talyn
SAINT
Beavers create ponds that are good for fish & fishing, help store water during drought periods and recharge the aquifer, and beaver ponds help regulate high water flows. All of which helps riparian health.
The removal of beavers results in riparian areas not functioning properly, and leads to greater erosion.
But if you're inclined to build in a flood plain then Mother Nature, not beavers, will eventually cause problems.
The removal of beavers results in riparian areas not functioning properly, and leads to greater erosion.
But if you're inclined to build in a flood plain then Mother Nature, not beavers, will eventually cause problems.
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Thanks. Never knew that.
rattlesnakes are rare where i am in nj. that said, if i had rattlesnakes around my house they wouldn't be there for too long.
HayesGreener
Ronin
The key to survival for venomous snakes here is for them to stay away from the house and yard.
I spent a summer as a seasonal park ranger at Montezuma’s Well Nat. Monument. We had rattlers there, a lot of rattlesnakes, mostly Mohaves. Rattlers and tourists do not mix well, particularly tourists from NJ
.Policy was to kill them…too much trouble to relocate. So I did, and ate them. Dry meat, but easy to clean. Found that stewing them was the best. Took glycerine to the skins, and made them onto hatbands.
Johnny Yuma
Elite
trapping is illegal here, all my traps are hanging on the wall.