Beaver

The beaver has been many things in history of Canada and especially British Columbia. It is a national symbol, as well as a source of food and clothing for aboriginal peoples. Beavers are also important for other species because their dams provided habitats for other species such as mink, muskrats, and otters. On the other hand beavers cost North America millions of dollars every year by causing flooding with their dams and damage to private and public property.

So it is essential to handle this valuable animal right, to sustain beaver habitat.

About beaver

Beavers live along the slower-moving sections of rivers and streams and on pond shores of small lakes that aren’t exposed to heavy wave actions. Beavers go for muddy shores and bottom areas because rock and gravel make channeling, burrowing and damming difficult.

Beavers are vegetarians; they eat a variety of plants in the summer, including grasses, forbs, the leaves of shrubs, and pond lilies. In the winter season they eat bark and twigs of certain trees and scrubs, such as aspen, cottonwood and willow.

A dominant pair in active colonies usually produce only one litter per year, one litter consist mostly us three or four pups.

Beavers encounter a variety of danger. They can get killed by the trees they are felling, as well as from wounds inflicted by other beavers, wolves and for sure fur trappers.

In conclusion, it is very important to yield on a trap line depends on the numbers of beaver colonies and the numbers of beaver per colony. Because the average population size of beavers depend on both habitat quality and trapping rotation schedule. Trappers should maintain healthy balance between the nature and their interest on the fur of the beavers.