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Beavers are making a comeback in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Dec. 30, 2022 Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 11:24 a.m. | Amanda Bartlett , SFGATE

Posted on 12/30/2022 1:04:49 PM PST by thecodont

The recent discovery of two beavers sighted along Matadero Creek in Palo Alto could be a sign of a major comeback for the species in the Bay Area.

Naturalist Bill Leikam, who is the co-founder and president of the Urban Wildlife Research Project, captured trail camera footage of the semiaquatic rodents wandering along the waterway late last month, as the Mercury News first reported. He set up the cameras after he had been tipped off by a resident who claimed to have seen one while they were meditating on the side of the creek, and sure enough, there they were — a male and a female. Now, Leikam treks along the waterway twice a day to check the cameras and scour the beavers’ new home for signs of their whereabouts, finding clues in the form of paw prints in the mud and tooth marks on ash trees. He’s hopeful the pair could help reestablish the species’ population in the area.    

“It’s exciting,” Lekam told the Mercury News. “It’s been 160 years since there [have] been any beavers along any of these creeks. It speaks of the health of the creeks.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: beavers; chatnotnews; rodentia; rodents; sfbayarea; wetlands; wildlife
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To: thecodont

Uh-oh! The democRATS are very busy trying to take down dams right and left. Those busy little beavers are going to wreak havoc on the plans of the environazi wackos. Will there be emergency legislation (never let a crisis go to waste!) to monitor, track, and dismantle these new dams?

Will the Beaver Lobby have to create their own GoFundMe site to protect their habitats? Will they label each dam as sustainable, and renewable? If they give enough money to the Clinton Library & Massage Parlor, Clinton would love to chase more beaver. Clinton could restart his Intern Program.


21 posted on 12/30/2022 1:23:59 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: BradyLS
Dam you beavers!

Especially after what they did to the Gators.

22 posted on 12/30/2022 1:27:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: thecodont

Cue the Frank Drebbin Nice Beaver graphic.


23 posted on 12/30/2022 1:27:56 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: thecodont

Don’t they know that beavers are now known as vagina squirrels?


24 posted on 12/30/2022 1:30:42 PM PST by MountainDad (A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others. Support your local militia.)
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To: thecodont

Are they sure they are actual beavers, and not transbeavers?

Maybe they’re only muskrats who identify as beavers.


25 posted on 12/30/2022 1:33:19 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (If Black Lives Matter, how do you explain Chicago?)
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To: EEGator

Especially when Ward was being really tough on the beaver last night.


26 posted on 12/30/2022 1:33:24 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: thecodont

LOL. I clicked on this thread for the comments.


27 posted on 12/30/2022 1:33:47 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: srmanuel

Damn Hugh Beaumont...


28 posted on 12/30/2022 1:34:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

29 posted on 12/30/2022 1:34:38 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: thecodont

And there's the always enjoyable giant inflatable beaver.

30 posted on 12/30/2022 1:35:58 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FreedomPoster

31 posted on 12/30/2022 1:36:18 PM PST by EEGator
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To: marktwain

That was the old days, now everybody will ooh and awe as the flood waters wash away the feces.


32 posted on 12/30/2022 1:38:31 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: thecodont

“AAAHHH THE BEAVER! WHAT WERE WE THINKING?!?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbfA5L3YAO0


33 posted on 12/30/2022 1:39:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: frank ballenger

Of course - Exit 69...


34 posted on 12/30/2022 1:44:10 PM PST by dakine
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To: thecodont

Can’t touch that.


35 posted on 12/30/2022 1:44:14 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Larry Lucido
Cue the Frank Drebbin Nice Beaver graphic.

https://youtu.be/wS3LWOTCW4A

36 posted on 12/30/2022 1:51:21 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: MountainDad

“Don’t they know that beavers are now known as vaginaX They/Them squirrels?”

Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but that, in my mind had to be fixed. Beavers identify as They/Them. Shall we let the correction stand? If not, you are racist.

;-)

(may 23 suck less)


37 posted on 12/30/2022 1:54:46 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: thecodont
"Meditating beavers by the side of the creek."

Ommmm...Ommmm...Ommmm


38 posted on 12/30/2022 1:55:05 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
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To: llevrok

Thank you!


39 posted on 12/30/2022 2:09:41 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: thecodont

These real beavers, or trans-beavers we have to pretend are real beavers??


40 posted on 12/30/2022 2:12:22 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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