The Quack Shack

[duluthralphie]

So not only dux you have problems with?
What happened between you and the beavers that you try to eradicate them too?

They keep flooding my driveway. I have had a 20 year war with them.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

They keep flooding my driveway. I have had a 20 year war with them.

Make them a piece offer and build a bridge over their pond…
Or just get a high-water rescue vehicle!

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a peace treaty with them.

They move out or I blow them to pieces.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Once the floods start will the creek fill for a year? Or how long?

Do the platypus come back with the water or has it moved on?

Its flowing again now. It never usually dries up but with the state governments "enviromental flows" during the drought water that would normally come this way was sent straight to South Australias overflowing string of lakes. But yes floods should bring the fish and other swimming creatures back. If you don't know what an enviromental flow is, its because we are only place in the world to do it, and I do not reccomend. But heres some snippets of our creek. Thiught I had more pics of our beautiful old gumtrees but I don't.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Its flowing again now. It never usually dries up but with the state governments "enviromental flows" during the drought water that would normally come this way was sent straight to South Australias overflowing string of lakes. But yes floods should bring the fish and other swimming creatures back. If you don't know what an enviromental flow is, its because we are only place in the world to do it, and I do not reccomend. But heres some snippets of our creek. Thiught I had more pics of our beautiful old gumtrees but I don't.
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No croc's in there?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I have a peace treaty with them.

They move out or I blow them to pieces.

Aren't beavers protected in the U.S.? - They sure are in Europe, where they almost went extinct due to »peace treaties« like your's…

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

No they are considered nuisance animals. Shouldn't be as they are foundation animals and create habitat for others. But then my beaver are on a creek a long way from my house. My neighbor trapped them all and killed them

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Its flowing again now. It never usually dries up but with the state governments "enviromental flows" during the drought water that would normally come this way was sent straight to South Australias overflowing string of lakes. But yes floods should bring the fish and other swimming creatures back. If you don't know what an enviromental flow is, its because we are only place in the world to do it, and I do not reccomend. But heres some snippets of our creek. Thiught I had more pics of our beautiful old gumtrees but I don't.
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Gorgeous

 

[Kiwibird]

They are reintroducing beavers in the UK to reduce flooding, after successful net reductions of flooding in Europe following increases to the beaver population. I guess you have to understand them well to predict where they will build and therefore where flooding will increase and decrease.

 

[Kiwibird]

No they are considered nuisance animals. Shouldn't be as they are foundation animals and create habitat for others. But then my beaver are on a creek a long way from my house. My neighbor trapped them all and killed them

Yes, they are often described as a "keystone species". I think this is the doco I have used with students: