Beaver sighted in Detroit River; first in 75 years

AP ^ | 16 Feb 2009 | AP

[BGHater]

Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.

The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant. Officials believe the beaver spotted by the utility's motion-sensitive camera marks the animal's return to the river for the first time in at least 75 years.

Photos and video were taken in November, but Detroit Edison didn't want to release them until they could ensure the animal's safety.

[BGHater]

A photo taken by a Detroit Edison motion-sensitive camera in November shows a beaver on company property. It is the first beaver seen in Detroit in at least 75 years and is a sign the river is cleaner.

[Squawk 8888]

It is so tempting to make a comment about the “Windsor Ballet”.

[snarks_when_bored]

A beaver cut down three small, recently planted trees in my backyard a couple of years ago, the little bastid...

[Buck W.]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Bush’s fault”, doesn’t it?

[Puppage]

[Constitution Day]

Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.

Detroit, like Ward Cleaver, has been a little rough on the beaver.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

OMG! As soon as we’re done combatting global warming, we gotta do something about these invasive species!/s

I had no idea that adult beavers were “50 to 100 lbs”.

[Wavrnr10]

She was scantily dressed and floating face down.

[cripplecreek]

I thought Madonna moved to Great Britain more recently.

[PGalt]

Leave it to Beaver (parody)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxGo0KT8Z7Y

[Gaffer]

It’s not surprising. Remember the line from Jurasic Park? “Nature will find a way?” It is a subtle reminder that the hysteria of the ecobunnies and tree huggers that their arrogance that humankind could affect nature on a world scale is preposterous.

[andy58-in-nh]

Wow. I didn’t realize the Detroit River was so clean.

[Tarpon]

Getting really cold up north.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Damn, now I can't post "IBTGWYWKOROTBLN".

"in before the Gee, Ward, you were kind of rough on the Beaver last night"

[Scutter]

Nice Beaver

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Apparently beavers have been afraid of new car production all these years.

[Puppage]

Wow. I didn’t realize the Detroit River was so clean

It has to be.......otherwise, the beaver wouldn't, ummm, come.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is good because when Bari The Kenyan gets done with us, we’re all going to have to go back to living in log cabins and trapping beaver for a living. “Progressives” are so retro.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

NOT GUILTY!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Obama responsible for damp beavers in Detroit!"

(Film at eleven.)