Posted on 10/22/2015 10:14:23 PM PDT by LucyT
Boise, Idaho - More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers settled on a novel idea. They captured beavers and other furry rodents, packed them into special travel boxes, attached parachutes and dropped them from a plane into..."
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I know this has a few good jokes attached NAPL.
There’s one by either Vonnegut or Kilgore Trout I’m thinking of.......
Anyone that has had to deal with those over sized rodents knows the only overpopulation control is the same as with a mouse or a rat.
They are extremely destructive and ruin wildlife habitat and haying and/or grazing areas. Flood roads and property. They will take a perfectly health aspen, a foot or better in diameter, 40 - 60 feet tall, lay it down and skin it and remove the small branches.
The county uses explosives to blow up their lodges. Some poison them. With a inexpensive fur bearer permit I shoot and trap them.
"As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly!"
I hope she landed somewhere soft, like a nice lawn. Otherwise, road rash.
She’s gonna chafe.
Oh Lucy! I laughed till I cried.
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