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Parachuting beavers: Archive footage shows kooky 40s project, USA
Idaho Department of Fish and Game ^
| 1940s
| Idaho Department of Fish and Game and YouTube
Posted on 10/23/2015 10:48:59 AM PDT by Ancesthntr
Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials struggling to manage a growing beaver population in the 1940s and 1950s struck on an unusual solution.
TOPICS: History; Humor; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beavers; fur; parachuting
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FYI, I did a search and found nothing - hope everyone enjoys this.
A nice blast from the past: this footage was apparently mis-filed and someone just found it recently.
Clearly, these guys in Idaho missed a great opportunity, by about 50 years...they didn't have video cameras inside of the boxes, to see the reaction of the beavers to getting tossed out of a plane, or the reaction when the chutes opened or when they landed.
Oh, and it would have been more humorous to have "Ride of the Valkyries" playing while showing a massive deployment of these critters.
To: Ancesthntr
Attack of the flying beavers.
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:51:05 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Ancesthntr
At least they took the extra time to “sort the beavers by size and weight”...
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:52:34 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: Army Air Corps
LOL! I thought it was a scene form one of those Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin.
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:54:27 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Ancesthntr
googled “beaver hunt”............. boy was THAT a mistake.
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:55:53 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Ancesthntr
how long did it take the beavers to walk home ?
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:59:00 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Ancesthntr
Woo-Hoo, go Beavs!
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:59:58 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(A proud CRUZader.)
To: Ancesthntr
Parachuting beavers Probably best to NOT do a google search on that if you're at work.
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:00:08 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Ancesthntr
In Cincinnati, Ohio a few generations ago a radio station tried dropping live domestic turnkeys out of a helicopter at a shopping center. As I recall it did not go too well either
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:00:26 AM PDT
by
dirtymac
(Now is the time for all good men (people) to come o he aid of their coutry!)
To: Ancesthntr
Flying Beavers.
Drink.
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:01:39 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
To: Army Air Corps
Parachuting beavers: Archive footage shows kooky 40s project "Fighting soldiers, from the sky ..."
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:02:07 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Lifelong Enemy of Hillary Clinton!)
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:03:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:03:42 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:03:44 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:03:48 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
To: The Sons of Liberty
"Fighting soldiers, from the sky ..."Wrong species, wrong color :-)
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:05:29 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(A proud CRUZader.)
To: Ancesthntr
Beavers are cute and clever, but you don’t want one in your neighborhood. They ring all the trees, including the ones on your property, and they flood wherever they see fit to do so.
We had a young male beaver move into our goldfish pond a few years ago, looking to find a wife and set up house. He would have ringed all our trees and flooded our basement. The dogs barked at him, but no way they could catch him in the water.
The nuisance animal ranger, when I phoned, said he didn’t do that sort of thing, but that I should trap or shoot it myself. Trapping and releasing just means that you inflict that damage on someone else. So, we were working up to the point of shooting it when I guess he got tired of the dogs endlessly barking at him and moved on somewhere else.
Parachuting them into a neighborhood isn’t really very nice.
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:05:54 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:06:17 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: V_TWIN
googled “beaver hunt”............. boy was THAT a mistake.I had to think for a minute before a big, wide smile broke out.
I was thinking about the furry little woodlands and streams animals. Really, I was. Until now.
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:09:30 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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