Wildlife in urban areas: Local beavers cause controversy
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Wildlife in urban areas: Local beavers cause controversy
Submitted by Khalid on Sun, 2006/12/24 - 21:07While beavers are common in Southern Ontario conservation areas, two recent incidents caused controversy because they are right in urban areas.
Beavers on the University of Waterloo campus has gnawed several trees, posing a danger to those who use the trails. The University then paid a trapper to drown the beavers. Four of them were killed that way. There was a public outcry, from the students, as well as Waterloo residents. This caused the university to revise its policy and start a task force headed by the dean of Environmental Studies. Even that task force is being debated.
The folks in nearby Cambridge then said that beavers are safer in their city as opposed to Waterloo. No sooner than this has been said, that beavers were found to have chewed on trees on a trail next to the Speed River.
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Beaver Live Trapping
Beavers have been traditionally capture by either foothold traps or body gripping traps that will kill the animal. There are other techniques that could be used instead foot holds on drown wires or leathal body gripping traps. A snare with a relaxing lock can restrain the beaver and can then be removed in a live trap and transported to where ever the states DNR allows. They also make a live trap known as a hancock trap that is a clam shell and traps the animal live for transport. When someone is hired for this type of work you should request this type of removal. bat removal
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