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.”
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They will destroy a good trout stream in a blink.
There are some who run to the beaver ponds on trout streams since the brookies get big. But after a couple years, there aint any more fish. The ponds cover up the prime spawning sites with silt.
Mike Rowe: Sooner or Later, You’ve Gotta Squeeze the Beaver
True line from the show
So Mrs. Cleaver how’s the beav
Eddy Haskell
With all the jokes flying around soon they will have to start calling that animal “Castor canadensis”.
Still, and always, Pro-Beaver.
Are they also no longer shaving their armpits like the French.
Don’t you claim to know what a beaver is. You’re not a biologist! The SCOTUS is not going to grant you certiorari.
I’m not here to advocate for beaver dams.
I still can’t help but find a glimmer of humor in here though,
when the Leftist woke folks find out that even mother nature
disagrees with their goals of no river dams.
Oh the huge manatees.
are these real beavers or trans-beavers
Some might find this funny, but if easily offended don’t click. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSHd2rnkRTE
The Beavers are already going topless in Nantucket.
Just in time for the homeless to eat them
Not offended :-)
Oh my - I lived in that area for quite a long time, never noticed the Big Beaver exit on I-75 was exit 69!
Back in the late 60s, the I-69 and exit 69 signs were major theft targets. I know at one point MDOT welded some of them on.
(don’t ask how I know this)
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