You need to get out of the office more! Beavers are in the RMZ and their habitat has been & is mostly protected but the access of logging roads did allow for them to be very heavily trapped. Not as much at the present time unless they plug culverts which can be a real pain. Amazingly enough we found that if you made a horse shoe shaped fence on the intake end of the culvert 4 or 5 feet out the beaver built his damn on it and the intake stayed clear. Habitat lost to the beaver due to single species units? That is just way past real.


He would not lose the bet. Small land owners and hobby farm type things are under less review but the tree farms? Lots of oversight and they are having to utilize the R map stuff and go back and repair damage ( perched banks / water pirating ) from as high as 100 years ago Just the permitting process takes a real effort to wade through as most tree farms are corporations and trouble with DNR in not highly thought of in corporate circles. They stick to the rules ................. well mostly.