Monday, March 2, 2020

The Industrious Beaver on Pond Rd

Just beyond where the utility company flat cut saplings to the ground an industrious beaver appears to have shown the workers with chain saws how the locals get things done. - Norma Manning

A rotted trunk in the foreground versus three cut down by a beaver. 

Exposing the Phloem 

Beavers are herbivores whose diet consists of 53% woody materials.

Beavers will leave the wind to finish felling their trees.

A beaver uses it's growing teeth (incisors) to cut down trees and strip bark.  

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