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Ihey love to block on culverts — seemingly overnight — inundating the roadway with water. They love to cut down trees along water courses — also overnight — so they are across the driveway in the morning, often floating in the water across the driveway, as the beaver has cut most of the limbs from the trees and stuffed them tightly together with mud into the culvert under the driveway.
Certainly, the log across the drive and the limbs and mud in the culvert can be removed, but every morning before work can become a chore! Sometimes we wonder about whether the neighbors’ kids didn’t have a hand or even a chainsaw in this!
On the other side of the coin, the beaver provides a tremendous service to the landowner, the hunter and the fisherman, the wildlife biologist and the wildlife itself. He helps to control flood waters and erosion, and provides lifegiving water to livestock and wildlife in the time of droughts.
Most of us have seen the results of droughts throughout the state in the last few years. Imagine how the wildlife would have endured these droughts without help from the beaver ponds.
I know of no finer fun than to stalk the tiny trout that live in beaver ponds along the western parts of Clarke and Rappahannock counties.
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