| Beaver |
| The engineer of the animal world and the largest rodent of north America. The Beaver lives in ponds, rivers and lakes. In small streams the beaver will build a dam to back up the water to give him a place to search for food and to escape from predators. They will build lodges in the middle of these ponds to live in and raise their young. Not all beavers will build dams and lodges. In areas that have deep water or rapidly changing water levels they will dig holes in the bank of the river and live in these dens. A perfect beaver track is hard to find because of his dragging tail or the vegetation that he drag behind him to the waters edge. Look for limbs that have been striped of their bark or has been cut at a 45 degree angle. They get very active in the fall as they store away food they need for the winter. In the spring they will build mounds of mud (scent mounds) and mark it with castor (beaver scent) to mark their territories. |
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| Northwest Woodsman Explore the Unreachable |
