It has been about 6 or 7 years since the beavers were in this area cutting down trees, just enough time for the trees to recover and reach some size.

The chew marks on the trees are 3 and 4 feet above ground, and the beavers are pushing the protective chicken wire aside to get at the trunks and branches, felling larger and larger trees every few days. I picture these giant mutant beavers as standing about 4 feet tall, walking around on their hind legs like bears.

This is the latest tree, and I am counting on them to come back and carry it off. There are some stumps in the area where they have completely removed similar-sized trees.



There is still a lot of chicken wire on it.



I wrapped some chicken wire around the places where they'd started.




There is nothing we can do about the beavers except shoot them*, and that's hard because they are nocturnal and we're not much of a shot. We don't know where their lodge is - where all this wood is getting hauled off to - so don't know where to look for them except at the current felled tree.

*The Dept of Wildlife says we're on our own, and there is no place to relocate them to because nobody wants them.