the conversion of land to agriculture in the U.S. and across the world has resul
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the conversion of land to agriculture in the U.S. and across the world has resulted in significant wetland loss. To make room for crop fields wetlands have been drained, filled and destroyed by agricultural expansion. This agricultural expansion of food production has resulted in better nutrition and health worldwide yet at cost of losing many productive wetlands.
For this forum please consider the following " Wetland Management Beaver/ Farmer Conflict" and provide what you would consider to be a workable solution to the conflict.
The Beaver is know as a wetland engineer. In the expansion of their population young beavers move out of their parents hut and pond and create their own hut and pond. Essentially the young move upstream or downstream and create their own wetland habitat. In some instances this new wetland creation comes in conflict with agriculture in that the wetland creation floods an existing farm crop field. For this discussion we can assume that the creation of beavers' wetland has caused a farmer to loose 20 acres of a 50 acre corn field. What do you think the solution is to this conflict?
Explanation / Answer
The conflict between beaver and farmer is inevitable. Like “The Great Wall of China” created by human, beavers also built a half-mile-long dam in Alberta, Canada.
Studies have shown that if beavers have removed from their land they will resettle the habitat so it is a better idea to working with them rather than kill or trapping them as they are playing an important role in ecosystem equilibrium. We can allow beaver in their place while solving different problems relating to them in this way we can preserve their benefits also.
In our case where a farmer loses his cornfield, the use of low fences can solve the problem to a level, besides this coating the trees with sand and paint mixture ( 8 ounces of fine sand to one quart of oil or latex paint ) can also protect the trees from beavers as they will not like the taste of sand and paint in their mouth.
Hope this will help you.
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