USDA trapper at work today

[jackelope]

Beaver damming up Kelsey Creek along 405 in downtown Bellevue and chewing on cottonwoods. It’s on WSDOT so they sent out a USDA trapper today to set a trap for him.









The beaver has a cottonwood that’s probably about 15-18” across chewed through 1/3 of the way but the trapper said the state wouldn’t do anything about the tree until it caused a problem. 3-4 years ago we had a beaver take a tree down in the same place. It landed on 3 customers cars and totaled one of them.

[JakeLand]

2 day job at best

[lewy]

Curious what the point of this post is?

[LDennis24]

Curious what the point of this post is?

What? Why do you post on this site? Seems like a nice little FYI on having a USDA trapper in your neighborhood working for the government and why you might see a sign similar to this and why you shouldn't let your pets run free in some situations. Plenty of reasons to post. I found it informative. 

[Tbar]

Curious what the point of this post is?

What? Why do you post on this site? Seems like a nice little FYI on having a USDA trapper in your neighborhood working for the government and why you might see a sign similar to this and why you shouldn't let your pets run free in some situations. Plenty of reasons to post. I found it informative. 

Agreed,  Mike does really good work too.

[lewy]

I do a lot of wco work and I know I wouldn’t want my sets/locations posted on the internet for the world to see, esp with all of the anti whackos around here.

[jackelope]

Curious what the point of this post is?

Wow.
Just figured I’d share something I thought some would find interesting.

What’s the point of your post?

[LDennis24]

Thanks for the post. I have never seen one of those signs before so I found it informative. I figured they just considered anything else caught collateral damage! 

[Dan-o]

I also thought it was an interesting post.

Appreciate you sharing the info.

[Tbar]

Curious what the point of this post is?

Wow.
Just figured I’d share something I thought some would find interesting.

What’s the point of your post?

I think this is a great topic.  APHIS works for the public.  I also feel like it highlights the need for management.  The AR crowd only stands to lose by tampering with his set.  He is responsible and responsive so I don't think he's too worried. I hope this type of information is widely disseminated actually,  this worked is necessary to maintain infrastructure.

[UrbanTrapper]

I thought the USDA Trappers weren't supposed to compete with local trappers. 

[Buckhunter24]

Might snare yourself a bum down in that neck of the woods 

[Trapper John]

I thought the USDA Trappers weren't supposed to compete with local trappers. 

Oh ............... ................ I've been fighting that issue for years when I was in business.

Beaver trapping is not the only thing they do !  They trap beaver throughout the state.
They also go in at night and shot nutria on lake Washington and shot coyotes throughout the cities not just King county.

BUT "they are needed," since trappers won't step up to the plate and go into the cities.
I would that is why I was in business for 30+ years

Do you want to compete with them?
Well then get your name out there, become legal in every way and understand all state and federal laws including the city codes.
Buy all town & city licenses and pay into Labor and Industries.
If trappers won't then someone will have to fill in that void and that comes back to the Federal guys.

I was told from the USDA-APHIS-WS if the WCO had a association here, they would back off because the association could force them to,
but there is no WCO association sooooooo 

[jackelope]

Not sure if it matters in terms of who can or can't trap it, but this is on state land.

Also I've been checking every morning. The beaver was in the trap this morning.

[Timberstalker]

Nothing better than a trapped beaver.