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jean_thie
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Reged: 12/06/06
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Loc: Ottawa, Canada

Beavers on Carp Ridge near Ottawa, Canada

03/25/07 11:23 AM

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This area in the remote north is, I presume, almost managed by the beavers in some sort of sustainble cycle. Food supply is relatively poor. and as your examples suggest they move along the stream.

I came along this example when I was using Google Earth to map the southern limit of sporadic permafrost ( I believe you do glacier studies if I am not mistaken?)

I have added a bit of an interpretation to the original post.

Also I lived with beavers for at least for 20 years on the Carp Ridge near Ottawa. This area is almost exclusively managed by beavers. I had to put chicken wire around all the trees I wanted to protect. Like we have with farming, they seem to have a kind of rotational system. When the food supply is exhausted, they move on to the next best area, but will be back again when new growt has re-established itself.

In the area A beavers have been active all the time I lived there, maintaining a dam, but not always living there. In area B the started to build the dam around 1992. Before that time they occupied the area C , just downstream the present dam, for at leat 5 years.

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Beavers, Beavers, Everywhere!	jean_thie	03/24/07 06:19 PM
Re: Idaho watershed restoration?	begreen	10/23/07 09:53 PM
Re: Idaho watershed restoration?	jean_thie	10/27/07 10:10 AM
Re: Idaho watershed restoration?	begreen	11/04/07 12:36 PM
Re: Idaho watershed restoration?	begreen	11/04/07 01:14 AM
Re: Canada's Beaver Capital:	jean_thie	09/18/07 08:43 PM
Re: Canada's Beaver Capital:	jean_thie	09/19/07 05:50 AM
Re: Canada's Beaver Capital:	mspelto	09/21/07 07:30 AM
Re: Canada's Beaver Capital in 1945???	jean_thie	10/03/07 12:53 PM
Re: Canada's Beaver Capital:	Rambler24	09/19/07 02:23 AM
World's biggest beaver dam??	jean_thie	04/07/07 07:58 AM
Re: Beavers, Beavers, Everywhere!	gideonshorn	04/04/07 05:15 PM
Re: Beavers, Beavers, Everywhere!	Delta102	04/01/07 09:43 PM
Beavers, Beavers, Everywhere but in So Cal ?	Delta102	03/29/07 12:17 PM
Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ? DELETED	jean_thie	03/30/07 10:27 AM
Re: Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ?	Froggmann	12/23/07 09:03 PM
Re: Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ?	jean_thie	04/11/08 02:09 PM
Re: Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ?	Delta102	03/30/07 12:46 PM
Re: Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ?	mspelto	04/01/07 05:30 AM
Re: Southern California Beavers in Temecula Creek ?	Delta102	04/01/07 09:26 PM
Re: Beavers, Beavers, Everywhere!	LuciaM	03/29/07 02:23 AM
Beaver reintroduction - Hungary	syzygy	03/29/07 12:06 AM
Re: Water management by beavers	Delta102	03/27/07 06:50 AM
beaver pond cross section and beaver range in N.A	jean_thie	03/27/07 05:44 PM
Beavers in Montana	Delta102	03/27/07 06:20 PM
Re: Beavers in Montana	jean_thie	03/27/07 07:13 PM
Re: Beavers in Montana	Delta102	03/27/07 07:17 PM
Re: Beavers in Montana	jean_thie	03/28/07 08:29 AM
Re: Water management by beavers	heamit	03/27/07 05:57 PM
Re: Exploring the Northern limit of beavers	jean_thie	03/27/07 09:15 PM
Exploring Northern limit of beavers- Sub -arctic	jean_thie	04/04/07 06:30 AM
Re: Water management by beavers	jean_thie	03/27/07 06:37 PM
Re: Water management by beavers	mspelto	03/25/07 05:21 AM
Beavers on Carp Ridge near Ottawa, Canada	jean_thie	03/25/07 11:23 AM
Gatineau Park Beavers, Highest Concentration in Canada?	jean_thie	03/27/07 06:26 AM

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