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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1769022" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p><strong><u>IF....</u></strong></p><p>They do much worse than that in the area I lived in up until last May.</p><p>The idyllic lodge in the middle of a pond is a rarity there. Instead, they either build a lodge right next to the bank or more often than not, just tunnel into the sides of pond and stream banks, with the entrance under water. The tunnels go up above normal water level, with top of the tunnels and dens within less than a foot from surface and extended out into pastures as much as 20'. Twice I was driving along on a tractor and front tire fell thru into a 3' deep tunnel. Even if they build a traditional type lodge, they still build an extensive tunnel network back into the ground, well away from water's edge. </p><p>They girdled all the young and old pine trees that grew on the pond dam. I'm no fan of pine trees AT ALL, but the roots from those dozen or so pines help hold that dam in place in flood periods. They won't eat yellow pines. They girdled the trees to kill them so the roots would die and they could more easily tunnel back into the dam.</p><p></p><p>They first plugged off a 36" culvert under one of 3 crossings I had in the long overflow canal that dumps excess runoff back into the little river that bordered my property, then they tunneled thru 2 of them, which led to one of the washing out completely and the other one to cave in 3 different times, and those crossings were the only way I had to get to 25 acres of mine without going into a neighbor's property.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1769022, member: 18945"] [B][U]IF....[/U][/B] They do much worse than that in the area I lived in up until last May. The idyllic lodge in the middle of a pond is a rarity there. Instead, they either build a lodge right next to the bank or more often than not, just tunnel into the sides of pond and stream banks, with the entrance under water. The tunnels go up above normal water level, with top of the tunnels and dens within less than a foot from surface and extended out into pastures as much as 20'. Twice I was driving along on a tractor and front tire fell thru into a 3' deep tunnel. Even if they build a traditional type lodge, they still build an extensive tunnel network back into the ground, well away from water's edge. They girdled all the young and old pine trees that grew on the pond dam. I'm no fan of pine trees AT ALL, but the roots from those dozen or so pines help hold that dam in place in flood periods. They won't eat yellow pines. They girdled the trees to kill them so the roots would die and they could more easily tunnel back into the dam. They first plugged off a 36" culvert under one of 3 crossings I had in the long overflow canal that dumps excess runoff back into the little river that bordered my property, then they tunneled thru 2 of them, which led to one of the washing out completely and the other one to cave in 3 different times, and those crossings were the only way I had to get to 25 acres of mine without going into a neighbor's property. [/QUOTE]
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