Lou-When we bought our place it also came with beavers. There have been a few frustrations and inconveniences(trees across the driveway,one a poplar which took down our hydro pole and transformer one Friday at 4pm,etc) but the most continuing problem was the driveway culvert that they kept trying to plug. I finally rented a hoe and put in a second culvert about 2'below grade.(the original is a 24" that is 40'long about 10' down)I figured that they could now plug the old culvert and I could fill the resulting pond with bait minnows. Before they could do this, they cut down 3 of my neighbours little ornamental birch trees(they are native and we both have hundreds on our property but these were on his lawn and he had just moved up from the city)During the next month he shot every beaver he could find. That was 3 years ago and we are still beaver barren.Last summer I got my own little hoe and have been trying to plug that contrary culvert ever since. Three times I have had the water up to where I want it(I have cleared the brush from the valley,made a swimming area etc) I have plugged the pipe with rocks,clay,old polytarps,sticks etc but I just can't seem to do as good a job at it as those furry little rodents!
