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World's biggest beaver dam can be seen from space
The Telegraph ^ | 4 May 2010 | staff reporter

Posted on 05/04/2010 11:07:55 AM PDT by Daffynition

This woodland construction is the world's biggest beaver dam, which at 2,790ft is more than twice the length of the Hoover dam and can be seen from space.

The mammals use trees, mud and stone to make a type of moat where they can use their swimming skills to evade any predators.

The families live in lodges on the dams and spend their days adding to and repairing the incredible structures.

The dam was spotted by experts monitoring the size and spread of the beaver dams in North America.

It is located on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park in Northern Alberta, Canada

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alberta; beaver; canada; dam; woodbuffalonatpark
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To: Daffynition

Ooops, I thought this was another Meghan McCain thread.


21 posted on 05/04/2010 11:20:54 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Daffynition

22 posted on 05/04/2010 11:21:11 AM PDT by maggief (Not everything is what it seems.)
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To: Daffynition

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people
who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities”
with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.’ “
The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words,
which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part
of “Nature”, but beavers and their dams are.
But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie
absurdity.
In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers
for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by
men (for the purposes of men) the “Naturist” reveals his
hatred for his own race, i.e. his own self-hatred.
In the case,of “Naturists” such self-hatred is
understandable; they are such a sorry lot.
But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them;
pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H.
sapiens is the only race I have or can have.
Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up
of men and women, it strikes me as a fine arrangement
and perfectly “natural.”

LAZARUS LONG


23 posted on 05/04/2010 11:21:22 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: norraad
Building permit?

Or at least an environmental impact statement!

24 posted on 05/04/2010 11:22:23 AM PDT by llevrok (TEA wakes up America !)
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To: Daffynition

From space?

that photo looks little it’s maybe a thousand feet up.


25 posted on 05/04/2010 11:22:58 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Hotmetal

A 22-250 at 300 yards works for me! :-)


26 posted on 05/04/2010 11:23:43 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Daffynition
World's biggest beaver dam can be seen from space
 
 
 
Let me know, will ya, when you can see the World's biggest dam beaver....
 


27 posted on 05/04/2010 11:24:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: Daffynition

“June, looks like I’m going to have to spank the Beaver”


28 posted on 05/04/2010 11:24:19 AM PDT by saleman (!!!!)
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To: Daffynition

Do beavers shave in warm seasons?


29 posted on 05/04/2010 11:25:07 AM PDT by llevrok (TEA wakes up America !)
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To: edcoil

30 posted on 05/04/2010 11:25:14 AM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: Lazamataz; Slings and Arrows

Beaver ping.

Do I really need to explain?


31 posted on 05/04/2010 11:25:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’d dam sure hit it.


32 posted on 05/04/2010 11:26:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Daffynition

Hillary, you can get waxing services at any decent salon.


33 posted on 05/04/2010 11:27:05 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Daffynition

Nice dam beaver.

34 posted on 05/04/2010 11:27:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: jagusafr
"Definition of curmudgeon, if you ask me."

"Old Curmudgeon" from Founders Brewerey in Grand Rapids, MI is an excellent old ale brewed with molasses, oak aged, and rings in at 9.8% ABV. Tasty stuff!


35 posted on 05/04/2010 11:27:30 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Hotmetal
There was a beaver dam on a creek on my great uncle's dairy farm, it had been there for centuries and had created a peat bog of about 50 acres.

But the real problem for my great uncle's farm and the adjacent farms was the bigger the bog, the more beavers, the bigger the dam until it started flooding the pastures.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the farmers trapped the beavers to control them and sell the pelts. But in the mid 20th century, the gov't sided with the beavers and trapping was severely limited.

'Rats are rodents too.
36 posted on 05/04/2010 11:30:20 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: JoeProBono; SortaBichy
Sometimes ya gotta just let the beaver air out a little...


37 posted on 05/04/2010 11:30:20 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Hotmetal
My sympathies. I saw an episode on Discovery, where the loggers [Pellitiers?] took out a beaver dam b/c it was flooding the road they used to get the timber to the mill. It was funny b/c all the while you know the enviro-weinies/PETA types were having a fit!


38 posted on 05/04/2010 11:30:22 AM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Here is a good size one

39 posted on 05/04/2010 11:30:23 AM PDT by woofie
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To: wilco200
A closer view...


40 posted on 05/04/2010 11:31:39 AM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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