Glen's Ditch Beaver

By: Faith

   

    In August a beaver showed up and started to try and make a dam in Glen’s Ditch. The dam was flooding the ditch and started to worry some people about their houses. The 4th-5th grade class really wanted pictures of the beaver so we set up a motion activated camera with Tania lewis’s help. We have some really good Pictures of the beaver so far.

    The beaver was accomplishing his dam building so some people had to discourage the beaver. The beaver started building another dam upstream from the first. That didn’t help people at all.

    Hank Lentfer was asked to live trap the beaver but he learned that if he tried to put the beaver in another pond the beaver would just get beat up and and be ran out by the other beavers. Other reasons were that the beaver could find his way back and build another dam and that trying to transport the beaver would stress it out. So we decided it would be best to use a conibear trap. Sadly the beaver might have to die.

    The beaver actually doesn’t have to die because the beaver left. Nobody has been seeing signs of the beaver for the past couple weeks so Hank hasn’t set the trap yet. Lori Ross did a really good job discouraging the beaver so we don’t have to deal with it anymore. I hope he finds a better home that won't be disturbing anyone.