Posted on 12/22/2014 3:46:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers at EurekAlert say that our efforts to protect the beaver from extinction have had eco-unfriendly side effects. Beavers numbers have rebounded thanks to efforts across the globe to protect them. The new research states that as their numbers rise they are contributing to climate change.
Beavers create dams in shallow ponds, which then can host increasing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the pond floor. This accumulation results in methane, a greenhouse gas that does not dissolve in the pond, but instead enters the atmosphere. The study shows that today beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, a time period when hunting threatened the animals existence.
The latest study points to beavers being contributors to climate change while the older study shows that beavers are squirreling away our carbon log by log.
It will take more time and more research to figure out the beavers true role in our ecosystem.
(Excerpt) Read more at inquisitr.com ...
>> Beavers numbers have rebounded
And yet birth rates decline.
As a local comedian once said, “Leave it to Beaver” was an R-Rated show!
When one of the kids on the show asked Beaver’s Mom: “Mrs. Cleaver how’s the beaver?”
There’s more jokes in the post than Buddy Hackett could deal with.
What, no Canadians here?
Our local biologists say the best thing to happen to beaver is to have beaver fur hats and clothing come back into style so they can be harvested. I wonder whether they would be popular in China, where people are more practical and less drama driven?
Dave Barry once speculated on what life would be like for a real boy to have to grow up being known as “the Beaver”, especially in his high school years.
There is a Beaver, Utah, and a Beaver Dam, Nevada.
What, not beaver barbers?
Man tries to catch a beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvjaz0Xbgg
What to do when you’re chasing beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0
Scoring beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LT-RZGXBc
When beavers attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpj1zgyfScM
America needs beaver.
End of story.
I blame squirrel farts.
Squirreling beavers - sounds like a made for SyFy channel movie.
..a rebounding beaver
The always enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver.
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