Posted on 07/17/2013 5:31:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Urban Wildlife Research Project's marathon effort ends successfully
The importance of downtown San Jose's beaver population was proven this month by a marathon effort by wildlife experts to help one member of the local beaver family thought to be in trouble.
A team from the Urban Wildlife Research Project partnered with Wildlife Emergency Services after someone noticed one of the three beavers living in San Jose's "Beavertown" appeared to have something wrapped around her stomach.
Wildlife experts said the material, believed to a packaging strap, hindered the beaver’s mobility and would eventually cut into its skin. They said they knew the animal needed to be captured, and quickly.
The problem was first noticed on July 7. A team was soon assembled and traps were set, but it took until Tuesday July 16 to capture the animal.
In the end it took a late night rescue by a large team that had assembled on both sides of the downtown creek using a sophisticated netting enclosure and light rigging in the trees.
After the beaver was captured, a piece of plastic was snipped from her waist. It was apparently a packaging strap like those used to bundle newspapers, wildlife experts said.
The animal was checked out by vets and released back in the waterway within an hour.
The beaver dwelling has been in downtown San Jose since March. Scientists consider the beaver a keystone species of a healthy ecosystem, playing a crucial role in biodiversity of wetland habitat.
Beavers have been missing from the San Jose area for more than 150 years, until now. The downtown San Jose family is believed to have originated from the Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos, where they were reintroduced in the early 1990s.
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OH! That Beaver! I wondered why they were having so much trouble.
IBWBBB
Nice beaver...
10-Day Beaver Stakeout in San Jose Nabs Target
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10 Days???? That beats my record. I once staked out a beaver for 4 hours. But then it was closing time, and....
IBTMMTSR poster.
They better not be too hard on the Beaver...
That's one kinky beaver.
I grew up about 2 miles from this sign so I can testify that it is not fake.
The sign:
Sign is real, or ... Big Beavers really at the end ???
I hunted in Utah for a few years. Took I-15 north to Beaver Utah, turned right and went up Beaver Canyon 20 or so miles, wasn’t bad hunting.
He suggested I visit a friend of his at Beaver Diver: 
I was told about another fellow who owned Beaver Hunter and yet another Beaver Pelts but, never got around to visiting them. All these places are down the street from each other in and around Vail, Avon and Beaver Creek.
"Capturing me was, well, kinda goofy. Can I go home now?
I think I hear my mom calling."
At the truck stop in Beaver, UT they sell “I Love Beaver” bumper stickers.
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