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I met someone who had beavers move into his farm in Iowa. He said that before it happened, he thought beavers were great. After getting to know them personall

• hinkley 5y ago
  There are trees adapted to beaver activity. I haven't experienced this myself, but I've known a couple people who got real familiar with what trees can and which can't recover.
  • pvaldes 5y ago
    Salix genus
    • hinkley 5y ago
      Willow is the king of chaotic waterways, sure, but lots of other trees can be coppiced, and coppice is basically what a beaver does to a tree. A willow branch sticking out of a new sand-bar after a major storm can usually re-root itself. It has so much rooting hormone in it that you can use them to root other species. Some people take a bucket, fill it with cuttings mixed with some ratio of willow to leak hormone into the water and be taken up by the other branches.
• ciphol 5y ago
  I hear Africans have similar opinions of elephants - they eat everything in sight
• microtherion 5y ago
  There is a family of beavers in the middle of Zurich that I occasionally visit at night. Their activity level is amazing, and pretty much every tree close to water within a mile of their habitat had to be ringed with a wire barrier (or was felled before the city got to it). I would not be surprised if they provided full time employment to a city employee or two. But they've definitely managed to redecorate their living environment in interesting ways.