Beaver has killed at least 8-Trees in a few weeks

[riptides]

Beaver eat the bark on softwood trees/brush. Hardwood trees are safe. People can easily learn to live with beavers in the area. Beavers can be a problem , most of the time if a person understands them the problem can be corrected. If you insist on fighting the beaver, perhaps you should look in the mirror and consider who was here 1st. Perhaps you should move back to the city where you will feel more to home.

Wahhhhh. Classic case of jumping to conclusions on your part. There is a lot more to the story of how and why Mr. Beaver ended up in my study.

 

[riptides]

On my property, the beavers like to chew on oaks, beeches, and gums. They seem to leave the poplars and maples alone.

On my current property everything is chewed. Seriously. Even cedar. They use whatever for damming. But then they go elsewhere. Happens every few years.

 

[oosik]

Moss Road - back a few posts you made a statement that certainly does not hold true here. You said that popular & cottonwood were hardwood types. Wow - around here there are popular, birch, alder & quakeing aspen. These are ALL very soft wood trees around here. Now Cottonwood - it's not only soft - it's a rotten type of wood. It will only grow in valleys/draws where it can get lots of water. It's not uncommon to have gigantic limbs on a Cottonwood to rot and fall off the main tree. Cottonwood will not even make good firewood. It rots and turns to dust even before it gets a chance to dry.

The only type of hardwoods around here would be something a person would plant in their yard. Homesteaders would some times plant Black Locust. Pretty sure that's a hardwood.

 

[Jstpssng]

. Granted there are variations and local nuances, yet Moss' description fits the accepted definition of a hardwood

 

[MossRoad]

Moss Road - back a few posts you made a statement that certainly does not hold true here. You said that popular & cottonwood were hardwood types. Wow - around here there are popular, birch, alder & quakeing aspen. These are ALL very soft wood trees around here. Now Cottonwood - it's not only soft - it's a rotten type of wood. It will only grow in valleys/draws where it can get lots of water. It's not uncommon to have gigantic limbs on a Cottonwood to rot and fall off the main tree. Cottonwood will not even make good firewood. It rots and turns to dust even before it gets a chance to dry.

The only type of hardwoods around here would be something a person would plant in their yard. Homesteaders would some times plant Black Locust. Pretty sure that's a hardwood.

Balsa is a hardwood. Douglas fir is a softwood. That's a fact. I can't help it. It's true.

Just because a wood is soft does not mean it's a softwood, and likewise, just because wood is hard does not make it a hardwood. That's the science behind it.

 

[Alan W.]

We had a couple move onto our pond a few years ago. They started on the sweet gums never touched anything else except for one oak they started on then quit. Wrapped my trees with wire mesh. They left after a few weeks. Nice to watch but very destructive.

 

[MossRoad]

...popular, birch, alder & quakeing aspen. ..... Cottonwood -

All of those tree species you listed are hardwoods. The term "hardwood" doesn't mean their wood is hard.

Hardwood vs Softwood - Difference and Comparison | Diffen

 

[riptides]

Beavers have to gnaw. They don't really ask for the vegetation type when they do it.

 

[rangerfredbob]

lol, very true.

In years where the water level is high on my property (not this year, it's about 1' lower than normal) there's a beaver that wanders up stream, one year he took out 6 poplars... didn't touch anything else. Tried like heck to shoot the bastage, have a friend that is a trapper and he didn't make it out to help but then the water level went down and he went down stream again...