🦫 Beavers & Nutria: Hidden Threats to Your Property
While beavers and nutria may look harmless, their activity can cause serious damage to homes, farms, and waterways.
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Flooding & erosion: Beaver dams block streams and culverts, leading to property flooding and weakened soil.
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Crop destruction: Nutria feed aggressively on vegetation, damaging crops, gardens, and wetlands.
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Disease risks: Both species can carry parasites and bacteria, including giardiasis and leptospirosis, which threaten humans, pets, and livestock.
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Structural damage: Burrowing weakens levees, ditches, and pond banks, creating costly repair needs.
Protect Your Land
Don’t let beavers or nutria undermine your property’s safety. Our wildlife management team provides effective removal and prevention solutions to keep your land secure and productive.
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Why are ground squirrels a problem?
Ground squirrels damage garden plants and fruit and nut trees. They can also cause damage to building foundations, fences, and levee systems. Their burrows create tripping hazards. Ground squirrels can carry diseases harmful to humans. A major concern is bubonic plague, transmitted to humans from the fleas that the squirrels carry. If you find squirrels or other rodents dead for no reason, notify public health officials.
What do squirrels do?
Ground squirrels live in colonies in burrow systems where they sleep, rest, rear young, store food, and avoid danger. They are active during the day, mainly midmorning through late afternoon, especially on warm, sunny days.
Raccoon Latrine
To learn more about the health risks of raccoon latrines and how to identify them click below.
Dangerous Predators in Oregon: Protecting Families & Livestock
Oregon’s wild beauty is home to powerful predators — cougars, coyotes, black bears, and bobcats — that can pose serious threats to people, pets, and livestock. While these animals play an important role in the ecosystem, encounters near homes or ranches can quickly turn dangerous.
⚠️ Risks to Humans
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Cougars and black bears are capable of rare but serious attacks, especially when food sources are scarce or animals feel cornered.
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Coyotes and bobcats may target small pets, creating safety concerns around rural homes.
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Predators can carry zoonotic diseases (illnesses that spread from animals to humans), including rabies, leptospirosis, and salmonella, which can be transmitted through bites, scratches, or contaminated environments.
🐄 Threats to Livestock
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Coyotes are known to attack sheep, calves, and working dogs, causing costly losses for ranchers.
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Predator depredation often leaves behind carcasses that must be investigated by wildlife officials, adding stress and expense to producers.
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Diseases such as brucellosis and tuberculosis can spread among livestock populations, threatening herd health and productivity.
🏚️ Why Prevention Matters
Predator conflicts don’t just mean lost animals — they can ripple into financial strain, disease risk, and community safety concerns. Quick action and professional management are key to protecting both families and herds.
✅ Take Control
Our team specializes in predator management and prevention strategies that safeguard your property, livestock, and loved ones. From proactive deterrents to emergency response, we help you stay one step ahead of Oregon’s wild threats.
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Bats can impose serious health risks. Click below to learn more.
