Southern South American Trees Being Felled by Beavers

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growin Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b) Mar 07, 2007

I was talking with someone who just came back from a Patagonian vacation. She said there was a significant number of felled trees and beaver dams in many of the areas she visited. Beavers? Say what!? Yep, imported to produce fur but it wasn't cold enough so the coats weren't thick enough and the market fell-through. All those lovely Nothofagus, Embothrium, Saxegothaea, etc being felled and new swampy areas being made. Who would'a thunk?

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.04.04/city/enviro.php
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/beavlink.html
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/field-notes-a-canadian-beaver-in-chile/

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levilyla Baltimore, MD(Zone 7a) Mar 07, 2007

"stewed Beaver"? Yuk interesting however

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passiflora_pink Central, AL(Zone 8a) Mar 07, 2007

It's "beaver dam" or was that slip intentional? I know they are sorry they brought those damming things.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Mar 07, 2007

Quoting:
It's "beaver dam" or was that slip intentional?

Depends . . .

It's 'dam' throughout, here :-)
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/dammed.htm

Resin

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CoreHHI Bluffton, SC(Zone 9a) Mar 07, 2007

LOL. Don't be building those unaurthorize dams.

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Decumbent Cincinnati, OH(Zone 6b) Mar 07, 2007

Perhaps it is time for beaver pelt hats to come back into fashion?

scott

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hcmcdole Powder Springs, GA(Zone 7b) Mar 07, 2007

This reminds me of the nutria problem in the Southern states (reverse the direction of export/import).

http://www.american.edu/ted/NUTRIA.HTM

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/invnutriafaq.asp

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/factshts/020-00.pdf

There are plenty of other similar problems such as rabbits and cane toads in Australia, wild pigs in Hawaii, rats and mongeese in Puerto Rico, etc. Maybe people shouldn't be allowed to move about so everything remains in perfect isolation. Too late now.

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Phrago Coldwater, MI(Zone 5b) Mar 07, 2007

Very funny. I think this could actually happen. Ha!

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