Good Detroit News (For a Change): the Beavers Are Back!

By Queuebot in Animals & Pets on Feb 18, 2009 at 1:47 am

That’s right, delicious and nutritious beavers are returning to the Detroit River after being gone for decades. This is an encouraging sign that efforts to clean up the waterways are working. See, it’s not all almost-free homes and urban blight.

(I made up the stuff about beavers being delicious and nutritious)

The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant. Officials believe the beaver spotted by the utility’s motion-sensitive camera marks the animal’s return to the river for the first time in at least 75 years.

(Photo: Detroit Edison)

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Tags: beaver, Detroit, Good News, Michigan, River, Wildlife

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OSU GUY
Feb 18th, 2009 at 2:13 am
GO OSU BEAVERS!!!
darlzwik
Feb 18th, 2009 at 6:30 am
A few years ago the first confirmed sighting of a wolverine in the L.P. of Michigan in almost 200 years happened in Huron County, which is north of Detroit. (in the “thumb”)

After the D.N.R. took a photo of it and put it in the papers, 5 more people across southern Michigan came forward and said they had seen wolverines also. They said they didn’t report them before because they were afraid people would call them crazy.

If people wouldn’t report a wolverine because of passable ridicule, I wonder what else might have been seen, and not reported for fear of being called crazy.

Anyway, with so many people moving out of Detroit, my guess is that it will just get nicer and nicer for those who stay.
Louis
Feb 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Beavers are delicious and nutritious , my family has been cooking those creeters for 3 generations at least.
Morgan
Feb 18th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Perhaps now is the time to start buying up those almost free houses.
zav
Feb 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Morgan – OR start buying up all those free beavers!
David Govett
Feb 18th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Perhaps the beavers are back because the Bush is gone. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Jim R Feliciano
Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I wonder when the town will complain about what the beavers are doing to the eco system. The beavers will change the way water flows.
SF Miller
Feb 19th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
You are wrong… Beavers are delicious and nutritious too!! See http://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/wildgamerecipes/wild_game_recipes_b eaver_recipes.htm

LOL !!

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