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CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE Update IV November 23rd
Lodge building is again underway on SW corner of Lake Waterford's Thunder Bay For more information see the link a the bottom. Update III November 15th A resident canoeing on Lake Potomac has reported beaver activity including damage to trees on several home owner shorelines and to large trees near the church property. Putting hardware cloth around your trees will protect them. For more information see the link a the bottom. Update II October 5th A beaver lodge is being constructed on the southwest corner of Thunder Bay on Lake Waterford. Update May 31st!
Beaver activity has again been reported the second week of May along the Red Rock Rd. shoreline of Lake Waterford (photos above) and Lake Potomac (photo below). Small willows are a favorite beaver snack food cut down during the night. A beaver was sighted and reported by a N Beck Rd Lake Linden shoreline property owner on May 31st. Original Report
Beaver activity was first reported on Thunder Bay of Lake Waterford. The above photos were taken April 27, 2011 and show significant damage to a shoreline willow. Several large branches have been removed and stripped of their bark. The smaller branches in the water are completely stripped of their bark and are definitive evidence of beaver activity. Beavers eat the bark and leave the white pulpwood. Beavers love the bark of soft wood trees like the willow, poplar and fruit trees. All trees can be a target for beaver damage. Beavers will damage trees stripping the bark around the base of a tree and it often happens over one night. Residents desiring to protect their trees need to surround the bark at the base of the tree with three foot high chicken wire or similar hardware cloth wire product to prevent them from getting to the bark. Beavers are in McDonald Woods Forest Preserve and have been sighted from time to time at Root's Peat Farm along Beck Rd. Since McDonald Woods is down stream from Springledge Lake, Waterford Lake and Lake Potomac it is natural for young beavers searching for new homes to travel upstream into our lakes. Beavers have also been reported in Lake Linden. If you do not live on one of our lakes, be advised that the last time beavers were active in Lindenhurst they were taking down fruit trees overnight two and three blocks inland from the lake shores.
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