Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a Beaver
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a Beaver](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/featured_image-beaver.jpg?fit=1200%2C632&ssl=1)
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - I saw what I thought was a really fat groundhog sitting under the hemlock trees.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-6.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - An apple fell out of the tree and the "fat groundhog" took off for the apple.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_5413.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - Then I came out and it wasn't a ground hog. It was a beaver and it was eating my tree.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-7.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
What I at first thought was a very fat groundhog ended up being a beaver.
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - Cliff wrapped the tree in two layers of chain link.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-8.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - I walked downstream and sure enough, there is a series of dams.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-9.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)
The beaver cleared up a lot of underbrush around a small wetland near me.
So, we’ll have to see how much of a problem this problem is.
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - So, look again. That is definitely not a groundhog tail.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-5.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)
![Project: Saving the Apple Tree from a beaver - Beaver stand up, using their tail to balance so he can eat the apples.](https://i0.wp.com/www.projectsmallhouse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/beaver-1.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)