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Mountain
Beaver Control and Information
Northwest Nuisance Wildlife Control traps, removes, manages and
controls most animal species, including mountain beavers.
Captured mountain beaver |
Our mountain beaver control services
include the removal and
control of problem mountain beavers from urban, rural and suburban
areas. Here
at Northwest Nuisance Wildlife Control we do catch and remove our fair
share of mountain beavers. These rodents cause a lot of
damage to
timber company trees on new replanting sites. In urban areas
they are equally destructive.
The
mountain beaver's
favorite food around houses is the rhododendron. Next to the
rhododendron, they will eat just about any plant that a homeowner
plants, including tulips, grass, fruit trees, berries bushes
and
any of the like. Here at NNWC we have even seen them
eat
scotch broom next to our highways. In the green belts we have
seen them eat native plants such as sword fern, salal, Oregon
grape and Douglas fir, alder, willow, cedar. They can eat
plants
like bracken and sword ferns that other animals cannot.
Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) Mountain
beavers are small to medium-sized rodents found in British Columbia,
Washington State, Oregon and Northern California (on the west side of
the Cascade Mountains).
They are grayish
brown to
reddish brown to black in color and weigh an average of 2.3
pounds. Their overall length is about 13.5 inches long that
includes a 1-inch tail. There are some with white
fur. They burrow in the hillsides and are not usually found
in
flat land areas.
They breed between
January to March
with a gestation period of 30 days. The young are born
hairless
and blind. Mountain beavers are active twenty-four seven,
three
hundred and sixty-five (24-7-365) days a year.
Typical range
away from their burrows is about 25 yards.
Because
they
are active 24 hours a day, they can do a lot of damage. Their
diet consists of vegetation such as sworn ferns, western cedar, hemlock
and Douglas-fir trees in forestry areas. In forestry areas of
Washington State the mountain beaver is reasonable for millions of
dollars in damage to newly planted trees.
The
mountain beaver is considered the most primitive, living rodent.
Our
Mountain Beaver Control Programs consist of non-lethal and lethal
control methods.
For professional mountain beaver
trapping, removal and control, call the experts at Northwest Nuisance
Wildlife Control.
(360) 794-3535 or Toll Free at
1-888-868-3063
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