In GH the cuts have recovered some but it is different as well just different where you find them. The thing on cuts here is that they took a habitat hit big time but weathered it in the old days. Modern timber harvest played a role and the biggest not being what one would think. The roads did and do damage but the greatest impact was that the roads created access for trapping beaver. So areas once not worth the walk & time for a trapper now were. Add to it the thing that beaver just love culverts and I have had to remove dams at the mouth of a 8 ft culvert so they have to be removed. Weyco had a guy that would use 4 in woven wire and metal fence post to build a fence away from the mouth of the pipe after trapping was limited and it worked mostly as the beaver uses the fence as its anchor for the dam.

We all like to blame habitat destruction and the picture of devastation jumps out but many times it is not that dramatic but rather death by a thousand wounds. Beaver ponds are critical to both trout and Coho and can be a real pain for anyone from a home owner to farmers. As my boss once said " they work for food, don't ask for a raise, and do not have a union " Beaver ponds are a critical link to the health of many fish and wildlife species. No ponds dimished watershed health for everything from fish to birds just plain everything.