Posted on 07/17/2013 5:31:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Urban Wildlife Research Project's marathon effort ends successfully
The importance of downtown San Jose's beaver population was proven this month by a marathon effort by wildlife experts to help one member of the local beaver family thought to be in trouble.
A team from the Urban Wildlife Research Project partnered with Wildlife Emergency Services after someone noticed one of the three beavers living in San Jose's "Beavertown" appeared to have something wrapped around her stomach.
Wildlife experts said the material, believed to a packaging strap, hindered the beaver’s mobility and would eventually cut into its skin. They said they knew the animal needed to be captured, and quickly.
The problem was first noticed on July 7. A team was soon assembled and traps were set, but it took until Tuesday July 16 to capture the animal.
In the end it took a late night rescue by a large team that had assembled on both sides of the downtown creek using a sophisticated netting enclosure and light rigging in the trees.
After the beaver was captured, a piece of plastic was snipped from her waist. It was apparently a packaging strap like those used to bundle newspapers, wildlife experts said.
The animal was checked out by vets and released back in the waterway within an hour.
The beaver dwelling has been in downtown San Jose since March. Scientists consider the beaver a keystone species of a healthy ecosystem, playing a crucial role in biodiversity of wetland habitat.
Beavers have been missing from the San Jose area for more than 150 years, until now. The downtown San Jose family is believed to have originated from the Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos, where they were reintroduced in the early 1990s.
Near me there is a store called Ball Liquors...
LOL! I don’t know if there was a truck stop there at that time, don’t remember one, it was 35 to 40 years ago.
I wonder if they shaved the beaver...
I have no clue, lol.
I attended a small college in northern Minnesota (You know, the home of the Golden Gophers). Only, our sports teams were named the Beavers! One year the football team played the mostly male college, Michigan Tech, for their homecoming. The homecoming theme, plastered all over campus: “Lick the Beavers”.
I was trying to get a ticket to Beavertown...but,,well...nevermind.
I hate it when your beaver gets “packing material” caught around it...
There used to be an all girls college near here called....Beaver College. They let in boys and changed their name.
San Jose beavers are tough..
San Jose beavers are tough..
Maybe it was just some Thong Underwear from Victoria’s Secret?
I used to live in an apartment and one night I had to go out to my car for something. On the front porch, there was a cat obviously looking for food so I went upstairs and filled a bowl full of catfood that I had left over from my own previous cat.
When I brought it back down I then noticed that the cat had a zip-tie around its neck that obviously had been placed when it was a young cat because it had grown into the tie so much that not only was it choking it to death but its eyes were bulging.
When I saw that, I ran upstairs to get a pair of snips to cut it off its neck but by the time I got back to the porch, the cat was gone. I'll never forget the sight of that poor cat.........
I left out the S for Sometimes.
That was my company's corporate address........right across the street from the once corporate headquarters of KMart..........
However, I was surprised to see a beaver caught in a net.....all this time I've been using dinner and a movie.
"Nice Beaver!"
‘They let in boys and changed their name.’
To what, Badger College?
I remember that building. Designed to rust out
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