From a hike...

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Sufler

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Nice pics! Thanks for posting :)

Looks cold enough to have snow... surprised there isn't any yet. Maybe that's a good thing; lots of places are getting dumped on.

Looks like a nice place to explore.
 
That reminds me of when I lived in St Louis and would wander in the area north of town on the Missouri River bottoms. The beavers there had cut down a number of trees up to two feet in diameter.
 
Walkabout said:
Nice pics! Thanks for posting :)

Looks cold enough to have snow... surprised there isn't any yet. Maybe that's a good thing; lots of places are getting dumped on.

Looks like a nice place to explore.
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21 degrees. This is a state park just outside of town - not as wild as I'd like it to be but it'll do for a hike. We got a little over a foot the other day.
 
man i really appreciate you showing that beaver work. living in tex. the first time i saw this chewing i thought it was from a machine. the indentations are so regular & so even i could'nt imagine an animal had done it. beavers are increadible, in one issue of Fur, Fish &Game i read a account of a trapper whom found a large dead beaver at the site of a terrific struggle. he could tell a cougar had attacked the beaver & when he had traveled about 50 yds. he found the dead mt. lion.--dennis
 
There were literally hundreds more fallen trees by beavers. I'm just real curious why they went through the trouble of taking the bark off that one in the picture.

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Pictures like this inspire the woodsman in me (insert that's what she said joke).
 
Beavers eat a more varied diet in summer, but in winter bark is about all they eat. They store up sticks underwater weighted down with rocks where they can swim to it from their lodge even when the ice is too thick to break through.
 
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing. We have a ton of beavers around here in SE Wisconsin as well. They are amazing creatures, and I see more of em during the winter time than any other time of year.

JGON
 
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