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Bringing Back the Beaver

zogger
Mon Nov 24 17:39:00 -0800 2008
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Four complete families of beavers that were trapped in Norway have arrived in the UK where they will remain in quarantine for six months then be released in a trial in Scotland to try and reintroduce them. They were completely hunted out four hundred years ago there and the various conservation organizations want to reintroduce them to help provide more balanced wetlands.

ed.z.: I like beavers, they are pretty neat animals, even more impressive if you are diving and they come up real close to check you out underwater. BIG guys, around medium chunky dog size or so. I hope the folks there in Scotland won't be too annoyed, though, when they see how many trees they decide to drop, they are *relentless*. We have some in all the ponds here and you look around the banks, there are hundreds of trees down or will be down soon from their "work", they just do not stop gnawing.

Bringing Back the Beaver
SECProto
Mon Nov 24 20:46:43 -0800 2008
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not just cutting the trees, but can cause some significant flooding with their damns (pardon the play on words). Beavers washed out a dirt road I used quite regularly just this past summer.

Bringing Back the Beaver
Spider
Mon Nov 24 22:02:46 -0800 2008
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"pretty neat animals".  "check you out underwater".  "BIG guys". "do not stop gnawing".  Amazing!!!  not one mention of Canadians. GR&D.

Bringing Back the Beaver
President4242
Tue Nov 25 08:04:47 -0800 2008
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Got plenty on our family farm- amazing how sturdy their dams in the creek are.  Used to use them as bridges when I was a kid.

 

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