I know it doesn’t feel like Christmas morning, but our favorite author Ben Goldfarb just got back from a field trip to beaver-topia and you’re going to feel like you’re opening all the best presents when you see what he found there. Let’s let him tell you about it. Here’s what he posted on the beaver management facebook forum.
A few pics from my pilgrimage to Voyageurs National Park last week, where the beaver populations are dense and the dams are epic. Highly recommend this place to every Beaver Believer — it’s a powerful testament to what our favorite rodents are capable of unfettered, and, perhaps, a window into pre-colonial landscapes. Some of the castorid architecture truly boggles the mind.
just Save imagine what North America would look like if we hadn’t hat-hunted all the beavers. It’s stunning to consider what the landscape might have been; layered with cascading habitat worked and maintained for centuries – always water where you wanted it and very rarely where you didn’t. Once upon a time there was an entire continent built to lovingly cradle and release water like some kind of giant and wildly maintained beaver-Tivoli.
