Great afternoon to hunt

[kjohn]

I went out looking for chicken/partridge this afternoon at 3:30. I walked the edge of two 1/2 mile sides of Wildlife Lands in wheat stubble. I managed to actually get a Hungarian. That will be my supper tomorrow night.

There is a big slough on the south end of the Wildlife quarter. There have been beavers in there for years. I watched one for a few minutes. There were also muskrats right near the beaver.

While cutting back south and west through the thick bush, I put up a bull moose! No time for a pic. Nice to see, though.

Here is part of the slough, looking east:

And here's some of the damage the beavers have inflicted:

And, of course, the usual gun against the tree pic:

 

[ranger_dave]

I LOVE your gun

 

[KDX]

Nice pics. Shoot the beavers.

 

[FourTen]

Leave the beavers, without em we'd be screwed. Something about holding water on the landscape creating more growth and productivity....nevermind

22 over 20? Nice gun!

 

[FourTen]

doublepost

 

[Grouse Man]

Those beavers have made a lovely duck pond for you.

 

[kjohn]

In this case. the beavers haven't created anything but a mess. The slough has no exit runs, so to speak. The pics don't really show how deep the area is. I would suspect that during the "wet years", the early 1950's around here, there would have been a huge body of water there. If the water ever got high enough to run out of this slough, beavers would be a way down the list of things to worry about.

 

[Grouse Man]

You know the old saying, "If beavers hand you lemons, make duck stew with them."