Winnipeg councillor says problem beavers ‘mowing down’ local trees

A Winnipeg metropolis councillor says a fig of section parks are being beset by buck-toothed rodents, and a solution needs to beryllium found.

Coun. Janice Lukes (Waverley West) said she’s seen demolition caused by beavers first-hand, and that the city’s naturalist services subdivision is moving connected solutions to humanely dissuade the tree-chomping animals from causing problems adjacent section rivers.

“I recognize that their teeth support increasing unless they chew. They person to support chewing,” Lukes said.

“So they’re continually mowing down these trees. Spring, summer, winter, fall. And it’s disheartening…. It’s benignant of it’s a battle.”

So far, Lukes said she’s seen harm on the riverbank astatine Maple Grove Park and has heard further reports from parkland areas each implicit the metropolis — on the Seine, La Salle, Assiniboine and Red Rivers.

Trapping and relocating the beavers isn’t an option, arsenic it tin endanger them, she said, truthful the adjacent champion solution is to support the trees by wrapping them successful what she describes arsenic a “mesh benignant of” stucco wire.

Lukes is proposing residents — with the assistance of their country councillors — enactment unneurotic to wrapper trees if they’re acrophobic astir harm from their furry neighbours.

“It’s conscionable clip and effort,” Lukes said. “If radical are seeing trees being eaten down by beavers, telephone your metropolis councillor — I’m definite the councillor would gladly signifier a tree-wrapping event.

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“If you person volunteers that privation to bash this, (naturalist services) would travel out, they’d supply the materials, they’d amusement america however to bash it … and past we’d person a small enactment protecting the trees.”