Partnership’s Beaver Advocacy Committee
have identifi ed watersheds that could
support beaver at a remove from human
development. Historically these areas hosted
beaver, though they are now beaver-less. The
organizations introduced mated pairs of the
monogamous animals, tails implanted with
tracking devices, and monitored them closely
for 60 days. About a third of them didn’t
stay where the conservationists originally
put them, and some died due to predation.
But since all of the beaver were reported as
nuisances by human neighbors, they still had
a better chance in the forest than near people
who were free to kill them.
“What we found so far was that the
survival rates are such that translocation is
a viable option for beaver management,”
Petrowski says. And so an offi cial beaver
policy was born.
The ODFW’s relocation guidelines
are new, but biologist Penny Harris of the
Willamette National Forest’s McKenzie
Ranger District is already investigating
how she can best put them to use. “Our
goal is to try and use natural processes like
beaver to help retain wetland for longer
time during the summer months, especially
with climate change,” Harris says. “The
water is getting shallower and shallower
during the summer months.”
Harris says that the ODFW has approved
four areas in the McKenzie Ranger District
that have adequate food, timber and
predator protection to provide beaver with
new home, and they’re examining more
beaver-friendly locations in the area.
Restoring ecosystems and supporting
endangered species motivates ODFW’s
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hairdressers
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wildlife.’
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beaver trapper & hairdresser
&
Corrarino to support beaver relocations,
though he suggests that landowners who
seek only to rid their property of beaver
should fi rst consider plausible ways
to live alongside the furry little beast.
Contraptions that control pond levels and
protect trees and culverts can be found
online, and Oregonians can also contact
the ODFW to talk beaver tactics.
Petrowski says that a member of the
Beaver Advocacy Committee usually can
dissuade complaining landowners of their
distaste for beaver. “A lot of this has to do
with giving them nuisance status,” he says.
Without that label, he thinks people would
be more inclined to recognize that beaver
draw salmon and have irrigation benefi ts,
as well.
Shooting or relocating beaver may be
ineffective to property owners in the long
run, Corrarino cautions, because beaver
could return anyway. “If it’s attractive to
beaver,” he says, “there’s a good chance
they’ll be back.”
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