This adorable aquatic asshole took down one of the very few maple trees at my favorite island park.
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You mean tree reuse service. Making sure entire ecosystems grow and survive. One of the most useful animals around to many others.
Certainly useful and vital. Unfortunately he’s neither on this part of the river. It’s a small (1/2 mile) stretch of river after a dam that is industrialized and flows to a big lake. I’m sure our DNR will relocate them upstream.
They’ll move to a natural point and form their own pond as needed. Upstream I wouldn’t know so I can’t say it would be better or worse. Hopefully someone who is knowledgeable about the area(and species) has authority over it
Man, I spend so much time in a sleeping bag and I have never yet seen a beaver. I don’t spend much time in beaver territory, so I was very sad this summer when I spent a week paddling their territory by canoe. Not a beaver in sight…
I spent plenty of time on the river this year and only had two sightings. Plenty of muskrats though.
Cool! We don’t have muskrats here. It’s funny, I just read Helge Ingstad’s book about his 4 years trapping in Northern Canada, and he writes a lot about both the beavers and the muskrats on his travels. Highly recommended book. US title is Land of Feast and Famine.
I would think they are rather small, actually.
