Giant Beaver Dam

[Bar Sinister]

Our national animal has been at it again. This time it has engaged in the construction of a massive dam that is estimated to have taken 35 years to construct. Take that oil sands tailing ponds.

Beaver dam visible from space

 

[karrie]

'visible by sattelite.'

So what? So is my yard, and I guarantee, it's not impressive. 'Visible from space' needs a bit of qualification in the day and age where newsprint can be seen from satellites.

 

[AnnaG]

I wanna see the dam! Ed. Journal is nasty that it tells about something highly visible and withholds pics. sheeeesh

 

[AnnaG]

The dam is located on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park in Northern Alberta, Canada Photo: BNPS

The world's biggest beaver dam, found in a remote area of northern Alberta, using satellite imagery and Google Earth. Photo: AFP

 

[Cliffy]

I wanna see a pic of the giant beaver!

 

[Walter]

I wanna see a pic of the giant beaver!

 

[Risus]

That doesn't look like a beaver dam to me...

 

[Avro]

That doesn't look like a beaver dam to me...

Looks like a fat old guvment employee standing next to a ****.

 

[taxslave]

I wanna see a pic of the giant beaver!

Looks the same as a regular sized beaver only scarier and hairier.

 

[karrie]

I have pics of my kids with that specific beaver. I also have pics from when someone made a giant trap and laid it next to it. lol.

 

[Mowich]

Beavers are so cool. You just have to admire their determination and perseverance, no matter the trouble they cause.

 

[petros]

A flat tailed, bucktoothed rat is still rat.

 

[Johnnny]

that big of a dam and those beavers arent producing any power?:angry7:

 

[Cliffy]

that big of a dam and those beavers arent producing any power?:angry7:

but they have a lot of control. One out of two ain't bad.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I remember reading an anecdote about beaver dam. A farmer found a beaver dam n his backyard one day. He brought over pick shovel, ax etc and broke up the dam. He forgot his tools in the back yard. Next day he came to the back yard, the beaver dam was fully rebuilt, it was like new, with one difference. The pick, shovel, ax, spade etc., the tools that the farmer forgot in the back yard, were now part of the beaver dam, they were built into the dam.

Incidentally there is a large beaver dam in McGregor Point Provincial Part in Ontario, it has formed a rather large lake and influenced the ecology of a large region surrounding it. They have built a tower from which the effects of the beaver dam may be viewed.

 

[L Gilbert]

Beavers are so cool. You just have to admire their determination and perseverance, no matter the trouble they cause.

What they have in perseverance they make up for in stupidity. lol

 

[spaminator]

mothers would love to make their daughters wear beaver dams.

 

[Bar Sinister]

but they have a lot of control. One out of two ain't bad.

At least no one downstream is complaining about the beavers shutting off their water supply.

 

[Johnnny]

i wonder how many muskats are in that jumble?.. they do get along to an extent after all