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Beaver Invasion
Hmmm, well I may be able to help anyways Randy. ;->
I did some research on it after that last round of 'ideas' on getting rid of them, it seems they go in cycles, the population booms every now & then.
Our Natural Resources people are of the opinion that the best way to get rid of them is to make WANT to leave. Yes, beavers are nocturnal and will seldom venture out in the daylight unless it's an emergency. They are very happy to spend the night rebuilding what you spent all day dismantling.
The best suggestion they could give me was to use a long piece of pipe, and no, not to whack them over the head with either. It seems that they are instinctively programmed to plug up any leaks in the dam, they follow the sound of the water running and start the repairs. If you can put a hole or trench through or next to the dam and bury a piece of pipe such that the upper end works like a drain, well down under water, and the outfall is a short distance from the dam, they have no idea how to stop the leak. They cannot associate anything more than a few feet from the dam as being anything to do with the problem.
All they know is that their protective area of water is disappearing and they need to find a new place to call hoome, and fast, water is their only real defence against predators.
We tried it with a great deal of success.
Best of luck.
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Years ago we used a similar method as Dave is describing, but with a little twist.
We would use a spud bar, VERY heavy steel pry bar about 6' long to open a hole in the top of the beaver lodge during the dead of winter. Then stuff a piece of plastic pipe filled with ANFO down as far as possible and pack it full of pea stone.
A 3 minute length of fuse later there was no lodge, beaver or problem, just a very widely scattered bunch of dirty wood.
The dam itself was handled the same way after we were sure they were gone.
Best of luck.
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Blowing things up is a whole seperate category under the heading of "Fun things to do"......... 
It's right up there with operating heavy equipment, big trucks and fast boats, if it was socially acceptable it would probably make it less fun.
Kind of like telling 'war stories' and passing gas at the hunt camp, it wouldn't be as much fun if you were allowed to do it at home.
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