Coexistence Solutions – Beaver Response Team

NON-LETHAL BEAVER MANAGEMENT

Solve Your Beaver Problems With Coexistence Strategies

You live along waterfront property in a special place where beaver have evolved harmoniously with other river species and shaped Deschutes River land and waterways over eons of time.

Nature's Little Engineers can be a Challenge

Beavers are invaluable to the health and biodiversity of our lands and waterways. Unfortunately, their behavior can put them at odds with river neighbors who find flooded pathways and chewed tree.

Removing a beaver is a temporary fix, not a real solution, since, another will be along shortly to take its place. Nature will always find a way to fill a void.

Get in touch with our wildlife services coordinator at [email protected].

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS EXIST FOR THESE COMMON CHALLENGES

TREE DAMAGE OR FELLING

* Protective fencing or ‘sand paint’ solutions when aesthetics matter
* Vegetation buffer zones that ‘make the right thing easy, and the wrong thing hard’
* Landscaping with the tree species distasteful to beaver

FLOOD RISKS

A ‘water flow device’ allows water to pass ‘through’ the beaver dam, keeping water levels at acceptable heights to prevent flooding

INFRASTRUCTURE CONFLICTS

Prevent culvert blockage – and backed up flows – with beaver exclusion fencing