Outdoors in Georgia, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from Outdoors in Georgia, Vol. 8: January 1978Many other methods have been experimentally tried, usually with poor success. The removal of the dams and lodges is one of the most ineffective. Beavers are great little builders as anyone who has ever tried to disas semble a beaver dam will agree. Usually efforts to break the dam result in only a repaired dam by sunrise and no abatement of the problem. About the only way to beat nature's engineer structurally is to use heavy equipment, explosives and a scorched-earth-policy. Even then there is no guarantee.Likewise, the removal of all vegetation near the dam site is a Pyrrhic victory. It may stop the beavers but only at the expense of the timber you wish to protect.Shooting beavers is usually an exercise in futility. Due to the animals' habitats they seldom present more than a quick shot, so the success rate is low. It's great sport, but it's not going to solve any problems. However, shooting beavers, when followed up by more direct methods, may produce the desired result.Poison is the least favored alternative. The potential environment risks associated with this method make it an unacceptable alternative. Furthermore. Poisoning has never been shown to produce effective control on a beaver population.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.