Beavers tamper with trees in the Innauen near Innsbruck-Kranebitten right next to the footpath, making them afraid of falling logs. A person in charge of the city of Innsbruck explains why rapid intervention often makes no sense if the trees have been gnawed.
A concerned reader turned to the “Tiroler Krone” with a photo of a heavily gnawed tree: A beaver seems to have had a fondness for the Kranebitter Innauen, which is very popular with the population. The animal gnaws on trees right next to the walkway. “There are a lot of people on the road,” the “Krone” reader worries about safety in the local recreation area.
Beavers are under conservation
The possibilities of the city of Innsbruck are limited: “You can’t do anything about the beaver, it’s a nature reserve”, explains Stefan Engele of the City Gardens directorate, “that’s why you can only tolerate it.” Engele and his colleagues stop the rodent on the banks of Innsbruck Trot: In consultation with the beaver officer, the experts check trees and dams and remove shrubs. “We are busy every week.”
Things get tricky when the rodent nibbles on a trunk not protected by bars, as many do now: “It knocks down a medium-sized tree in one night,” Engele says. Cutting down immediately often makes no sense: “Then he immediately starts looking for a new tree.”
Treetops are relieved to control the direction of the fall
Only: “If a tree on a path is affected, we react very quickly.” Even then, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s being cut. A popular method is to “unload the treetops so that they can only fall into the riverbed” so that the beaver spends as long as possible with a tree.
If necessary, an endangered tree on the side of the path is quickly removed. Recently, an infested oak was removed directly on the footpath.
Source: Krone
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