[HN Gopher] Can beavers make our cities better?
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       Can beavers make our cities better?
        
       Author : sysadm1n
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-11-18 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | jmull wrote:
       | A few years ago a beaver started taking some trees from the
       | wetland-type area of the back part of our property.
       | 
       | It was pretty nice, actually.
       | 
       | But he went too far, of course, and there was flooding a little
       | downstream of us (really not much more than a drainage creek
       | though technically it connects two bodies of water and is
       | optimistically titled a "river").
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       | So he (or she, I don't know) was trapped, and the free
       | landscaping ended.
       | 
       | Of course, it may have become a problem for me too, once I found
       | my house in the middle of a new lake :)
        
       | btilly wrote:
       | I met someone who had beavers move into his farm in Iowa. He said
       | that before it happened, he thought beavers were great. After
       | getting to know them personally, he now thought of them as rats
       | with chainsaws.
        
         | hinkley wrote:
         | There are trees adapted to beaver activity. I haven't
         | experienced this myself, but I've known a couple people who got
         | real familiar with what trees can and which can't recover.
        
           | pvaldes wrote:
           | Salix genus
        
         | ciphol wrote:
         | I hear Africans have similar opinions of elephants - they eat
         | everything in sight
        
       | mdturnerphys wrote:
       | There's a nice Nature episode on beavers and their interaction
       | with people and the environment. It's titled "Leave it to
       | Beavers" and you can find it in various places online.
       | 
       | Two of my kids had a 2nd-3rd grade teacher who spent a lot of
       | time teaching about beavers, so they know all sorts of random
       | beaver information. Their class mascot was a stuffed beaver named
       | "Justin Beaver" :)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | They make my farm better. Somebody does have to go out regularly
       | and take apart dams that threaten the road, but it is not hard to
       | do if you never let the dams get high. If they do manage to back
       | up a lot of water they get a lot more productive.
       | 
       | I looked into 'beaver deceivers' and similar things and decided
       | to keep with a system that works. We have a tenant who does it
       | for us, he has a great story to tell when he goes to any 'new
       | age' gathering.
        
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