The Start of Trapping

Well the trapping season is officially upon us in BC, with the fall Beaver now open.  Paul and Tim met up with Larry a few weeks back, the man whose line they are signing up to trap on.  With the freeze up of the lake and creeks fast approaching, the guys wanted to start trapping them asap.  So far so good, they have had a few beaver in their traps from the lake.  Today they went out and set 10 traps on Twenty Mile Creek which is between here and the claim.  Tomorrow we will see what that will bring us.  Some may say why trap these beaver at all?  Well, on Twenty Mile they have been starting to damn the culverts that we and many others drive across when we travel the road.  If this was left alone, the water would definitely wash out the road in the spring and that would be it.  Because this road was originally built for logging purposes it would not be rebuilt.  Some say just blow away the damn, but that will not stop the problem either because the beaver will just keep building it back up.  They will probably trap beaver for about a week, then they should have about all they will harvest for this year.  Next they will start putting out marten boxes in November.
We also cleaned up the helipad the other day.  This was an existing pad that was a little overgrown, so we now have it ready if ever we need it.