Beavers started this lake house in August. You can see by the pics how much work it was to get the Poplar trees off the steep hills and drag them into the lake. Beavers are not that modile on land and that is when the Wolf, Lynx and Wolverine get their chance. Since the snow fall last week they have been out busily collecting poor wood like Alder to put up on the top of the cache to force the good wood further down into the lake. How they understand that 40" of ice is coming is hard to understand. We don't trap our lake Beaver or Otter. We enjoy seeing them so much. There are 3 big colonies a km north of us on little swamps where we will take 2 Beaver this year for lure making and bait. Once we can trap down on the Sutlahine River there are thousands of Beavers down there. Beavers near towns and cottages can be a nuisance alright but they are so neat to see the work they do.
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Not many wild animals around here in Linlithgow, Scotland .But im one of the lucky ones going to work in the forest every day . your site is a Wonderful insight into your lives thanks for letting us strangers into your world. Take care.
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etting us into your world!!
Hi out there at Big Salmon. Winter time I see.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of beavers, when we were traveling out to Gladys lake there was an area where the beavers were taking all the younger poplar out and dragging down into the creek below the road, The area they cut was almost a perfect cut block. It looked just like someone had been in with a chain saw and nipped everything down within a flagged area. We found that quite amusing.
Hope everything is going well. We do stop by here to catch up on the latest.