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Yeah, but the beavers don't consult with civil engineers on where to build the dams. It's an issue for rural roads that get eroded and washed out.
by woooooo 3y ago
Yeah, but the beavers don't consult with civil engineers on where to build the dams.
It's an issue for rural roads that get eroded and washed out.
- mbreese 3y agoThe counter argument is that the civil engineers didn’t consult with the beavers on where to build their roads either. There’s going to be some give and take here. If you want the benefit from a natural solution (beavers), you’ll have to work around whatever that solution is.
- ilyt 3y agoOr learn to make artificial ones better
- GoldenRacer 3y agoAnd then you have to pay someone to maintain the artificial ones. That might be a better plan in some areas but certainly not all
- emrah 3y agoThis. Beavers have no agenda other than the instinct to build a dam where one is needed. I'd reroute roads if necessary
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoIs this really why some people view beavers as pests???
- at_a_remove 3y agoYou should watch Post10 on YouTube. He's a guy who, for fun, cleans out clogged culverts. He'll find some washed out road and then figure out why. The why is usually "beavers."
- bjornasm 3y agoPost10 is a gem of a person that helped me through the worst days of covid related anxieties.
- FredPret 3y agoWe should set up a permitting office for them to use!
- mabbo 3y agoI don't disagree that they can cause problems. But there are a lot of ways to mitigate the problems. Biologists can tell you what kinds of locations are good beaver spots - so we shouldn't just build a road too close without some planning. We also shouldn't remove beaver dams so that we can build human structures- the dam will be back soon enough. And when you do need to build near one, there are lots of techniques to strengthen structures to avoid erosion. My favorite: plant trees. Willows will grow like mad near a pond and their root system will strengthen a bank very well.
- _whiteCaps_ 3y agoBeavers build dams when they hear running water. The civil engineers can just play the sounds of running water where they want the dams built.