Well KEVIN, I'm not at all sure you are OFF TOPIC in a forum called RURAL LIVING.
However, I'm amazed you don't see the irony in your posting here. We have critter that like chickens as much as we do and those that like a fresh egg or two before slithering off to digest the meal. Out chickens have to share their feed with non-domesticated creatures, too.
I can't complain and, of course, "our" chickens don't either. I moved here from a City where sirens and traffic and boom boxes resonated in teh congested streets and one seldom saw teh real night sky until the Hurricane took out the power plant.
I've a couple of year round springs that feed a man made pond that had diminished in depth almost every year (crawfish? tree roots? Not sure what caused the leak) and will provide out address if you will ship them beavers to North Carolina where the will find one content with the Rural Living and all the accouterments thereof'
I was especially taken by your line, paraphrased in quotes, above. You are living on lands taken from native peoples by trick, deceit and or force of arms and complain that creatures put there centuries before you might enjoy so much as a possibility of habitation there are naturally cutting down the same cottonwood tree (as your species calls them) they've been using some creatively for centuries as "your cottonwood trees!"
Why not seek to understand your neighbors and see how you can move into their neighborhood without drastically upsetting their lives - or trapping and killing them off. Seek to understand and work with nature. You may discover that those beavers will create special places you and yours can learn to appreciate and marvel at - and even profit from. They are interested in conserving water. There's folks in Arizona who would tell you 'That's a good thing."
Look it up. It couldn't hurt!
Ranchers and farmers benefit as water stored in beaver-created wetlands and behind beaver ponds provides
valuable water during droughts. Cities and towns benefits with improved water quality and more dependable flows.
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