Beavers are eating Verdun’s trees
Despite efforts by volunteers who’ve encircled tree trunks with wire grilles, beavers are still eating trees along the Verdun riverfront.
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MarcG 09:06 on 2023-05-07 Permalink
I don’t think they’ve simply migrated because of the construction as Downey suggest in the article. There is a family of beavers who live further downstream towards the bridge to Nun’s Island who have been there for many years, but it’s not a popular place to walk so nobody cared. They seem to have 2 dams going now in that location, one with baby beavers which are adorable. There is a new family (I assume they’re all related based on minimal knowledge of beaver behavior) that set up a dam further upstream last year or the year before and they’ve laid waste to huge chunks of the wilderness on the path along the river where lots of people do walk. It’s hard to know what the solution is since the beavers obviously have a right to live but humans and other animals also benefit greatly from the trees along the waterfront.