Has anyone had beaver problems? We live on 15 acres with a small creek and pond in the lower field. We have been plagued with beavers damming up the creek off and on for years. The current beavers have totally swamped our road to the back 10 acres, rendering most of our property unreacheable. I am in the process of researching beaver trappers, but am fearful this will just be a stop-gap measure and new beavers will soon return (after spending hundreds of dollar to eradicate the existing ones). Any ideas on how to discourage them from setting up shop in the first place? They are deemed 'nuisance animals' in Washington but one still has to hire a professional trapper to get rid of them. I have attempted to co-exist with them, but they just keep flooding us out and we are fearful our property will be redesignated as wetlands. The back 10 is our woodlot, and the front 5 is mostly open fields with our house in the middle and scattered trees. The creek runs in a valley between two hills and the pond is an offshoot of the creek. Thanks. Here's a photo taken last fall -- all the long pale grass and standing dead alders are under water. Our road runs to the right of the pond. The tractor is crossing the creek culvert, which is completely under water now.
