Arborists with beaver experience?
 

For real, I mean real four legged beavers. I have two trees that are at the waters edge and I'm wondering if this is beaver damage? Anybody here have insight?

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sorry about that, those were not rotated when I took them.

Wood? Beavers?

Yea. Too easy.

Your posts are usually very comprehensive so you deserve a "gimme" now and then. SmileWavy

That looks like beaver work to me.

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Ya gotta be careful with beavers.


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Not much you can do about beavers unless you can get a permit to trap or hunt them. They are considered a nuisance in some areas and federally protected in other areas.

And the title of your thread is just ripe for smart ass replies. I must resist. I must resist. ;)

Thanks, and I've been here long enough to know that no title is safe!! :D

Beavers have really been working on that wood.

This reminds me I have a beaver to stuff this weekend.

Wrap the base of the tree with 1/2 inch grid galvanized hardware cloth to about 3 feet up.
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I can do this...tks

This thread is shamefully anti-beaver.

I don't think it's beaver...I'd say porcupine.

Porcupines are beavers that can climb. both eat the same thing...
( although porcupines tend to like the more tender areas at the tip, and beavers tend to go only as high up on the trunk as they can but stay closer to the root)

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Make sure the galvanized hardware cloth is ribbed in the proper intervals so the beaver moves on after climbing on top of it and does chew on your wood anymore.

I'd be careful, I think that would agitate the beaver.

and it's not even winter yet...:p

I'm Canadian. If there's one thing Canadians know, it's how to handle beavers

Finally....something Donald Trump would be useful for.