Poor France. They are too busy eating nice food and rejecting refugees that they haven’t any time left to finish a complete thought. The harried things can only have half-ideas and not carry them thru to their logical conclusions. Descartes would be so disappointed.
Beavers threaten water supply
A BEAVER colony is threatening the water supply of the 40,000 residents of a town in the Ardennes.The animals, who have lived in the area for two years, set up their first dam in November across the River Audry.
Since then they have added another six to their roster, across tributaries to the river.
Their work means that during heavy rain the rivers frequently burst their banks, taking detritus and pollution on a new course into the local reservoir – the water supply for the 40,000 people of Charleville-Mézières.
That’s right, those 6 dams block sediment and pollution from getting into the reservoir for most of the year – but when they wash out all that bad stuff whooshes down stream at once. What the article doesn’t say (because of their unfinished-thought-affliction) is that if only the beavers weren’t there the waterway could release gradual toxins all year long into the water supply. You know, like they’re supposed to.
Dam beavers!
Out in Napa the beavers are so busy ruining things that they are cramming the waterways with fish, which attracts other nuisances who gut and shit their fish into the water without any respect for the reservoirs. Take this photo from Rusty Cohn and this short video from Robin Ellison: classic examples of the many troubles beavers bring!
And it gets worse. Yesterday, Dr. Ellen Wohl send me this video taken by her student documenting beaver activity at Crystal Creek in Yellowstone National Park. I know you’ll be SHOCKED to see all the riffraff beaver bring to that pristine wilderness! Thank goodness France, Martinez and Napa will probably be spared these particular visitors!
