Forum to focus on beavers in the basin
Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board’s staff is hosting a forum to receive input from agencies, land managers, and interested parties regarding beavers, beaver habitat modifications, and beaver management in the greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee area.
Many people have an interest in beavers because of the critical role they play in natural ecosystems. Unfortunately, the habitat beavers create can often cause conflicts with our existing or planned land use.
The Water Board regulates the discharge of waste to water; beaver management may result in such discharges. We are conducting this forum to provide a means for interested parties to voice their concerns, identify issues, and gain an understanding of applicable regulations pertaining to the management of beavers.
Invited agency representatives and others are encouraged to briefly present information concerning their area of interest or jurisdiction, followed by opportunities for questions and group interactions.
The forum will be April 19 from 1:30–3:30pm at 971 Silver Dollar Ave., South Lake Tahoe.
If you have questions, call (530) 542.5464.
Do us all a favor, Leave the beavers alone, They were here first, thank you .
Sorry, the Montana Flat Tail beaver is not native to this area, they were brought into Lilly Lake in 1943 as an experiment by the BLM and FS. As beavers do, they bread, throw the kids out on their own and before you knew it they were in many of the streams in the basin. With their activity came damage to many of our rivers and the FS just moved them around from place to place, which helped to spread the problem.
Now there isn’t a prayer in HELL of getting control of them.
Is “management” a euphemism for killing? It never ceases to amaze me how nature effectively controls itself, and when man enters the scene, things go awry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_in_the_Sierra_Nevada
Maybe forcing all animals to live on a reservation or in a zoo would solve the problem.
Looks like its time for Beaver skin Hats and winter boots to come back into fashion. (For limited time only)
Only the Federal Government can control the flow of Water, How dare they