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Title: World's largest beaver dam explored by Rob Mark
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2014-09-19 12:59:58
Canadian

[Regina]

Did he just call himself an explorer when he found out they were real beavers? Hmmmmmmm.....

[raydan]

"World's largest beaver explored by Rob Mark"


The importance of not forgetting a single word.

[BartSimpson]

What I DEMAND to know is did the beavers get the requisite permits from Environment Canada before commencing this ill-conceived project?

[Goober911]

Ya know they make the worlds largest sub sandwich, or this that or whatever to make news.
Meself I was thinkin the worlds largest tampon.

[Hyack]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

What I DEMAND to know is did the beavers get the requisite permits from Environment Canada before commencing this ill-conceived project?

What do you mean by ill-conceived? It looks to be a brilliant piece of engineering, providing much needed living area for the beavers.

[Jonny_C]

I've seen smarter beavers build MUCH shorter dams to back up MUCH larger bodies of water.

One dam was so large that it backed up a good-sized lake that we used to duck hunt on.

Very early one morning we went to the lake to go duck hunting and it was no longer there. A mining company with a mine not too far away had sent in a blaster who blew up the dam, coincidentally washing out a huge section of the mine road about 300 metres downstream from the dam.

Damn, that would have been fun to watch.

It took over a week of heavy equipment work to re-build the road.

[saturn_656]

You want to get rid of the dam you damn near have to kill the beaver. I'd rip one up, come back a day or two later and the bugger would have it plugged again.

If I had access to high explosives I might have used them.

[Jonny_C]

Beavers hate the sound of free-flowing water. They'll work like mad fools to plug up holes. The bigger the holes the harder they'll work.

Of course it's a matter of life and death to them. If their feed beds go dry they might not survive the winter.

[saturn_656]

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

Beavers hate the sound of free-flowing water. They'll work like mad fools to plug up holes. The bigger the holes the harder they'll work.

Yeah I heard that about them. Back in the day we thought they were intelligent, until someone stuck a stereo out in the middle of a field, playing the sound of running water, and the beavers went and piled wood on top of it.

All instinct, no brains.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

Beavers hate the sound of free-flowing water. They'll work like mad fools to plug up holes. The bigger the holes the harder they'll work.

Yeah I heard that about them. Back in the day we thought they were intelligent, until someone stuck a stereo out in the middle of a field, playing the sound of running water, and the beavers went and piled wood on top of it.

All instinct, no brains.

What do you mean no brains? It stopped making that infernal racket, didn't it?

[saturn_656]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

Beavers hate the sound of free-flowing water. They'll work like mad fools to plug up holes. The bigger the holes the harder they'll work.

Yeah I heard that about them. Back in the day we thought they were intelligent, until someone stuck a stereo out in the middle of a field, playing the sound of running water, and the beavers went and piled wood on top of it.

All instinct, no brains.

What do you mean no brains? It stopped making that infernal racket, didn't it?

I find the sound of a babbling brook rather soothing myself.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Yeah I heard that about them. Back in the day we thought they were intelligent, until someone stuck a stereo out in the middle of a field, playing the sound of running water, and the beavers went and piled wood on top of it.

All instinct, no brains.

What do you mean no brains? It stopped making that infernal racket, didn't it?

I find the sound of a babbling brook rather soothing myself.

As do I, but I also find Pachabel and Slayer soothing. Depending on my mood.

Beavers play a pretty important role in watersheds and water management, and we're just starting to realize that. If they find a stereo playing running water sounds to be irritating, I am not one to judge.

[saturn_656]

All true... but I still hate it when they flood out my access roads. My solution used to be a grappling hook chained to the back end of a half ton. It'd take a couple runs but once she let go... impressive the force of water is.