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Old 10-25-2015, 03:24 PM
 
Location: Priest River/Priest Lake - Idaho
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Parachuting beavers! A 14-minute “color film” (circa 1950 and complete with audio) produced by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to show trapping and transplanting of muskrat, beaver and martin.


Note: Youtube may want you to sign-in based on age restrictive content....it's the word "Beaver" that does this and I'll just leave it at that....




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA
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Old 10-25-2015, 04:44 PM
 
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Leslie Nielsen said it best: "Nice beaver!" (Naked Gun)

I actually saw a nature show not too long ago about a wife-and-husband team who have made it their life's work to transplant beavers back into former beaver dam areas in the Rockies, with great success. Good for the entire ecosystem. I think one of their areas was North Idaho. It was such an upbeat show, everybody was happy and energetic, including the beavers! I'm still hoping to hear the slapping of a beaver tail on water, some early NID morning...
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Old 10-25-2015, 09:00 PM
 
Location: NID
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Airborne Beavers, who knew?

Airborne All The Way!
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Old 10-26-2015, 01:03 AM
 
Location: Aiea, Hawaii
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I wonder if they got Jump pay???
Scott
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Old 10-26-2015, 06:36 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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There were airborne fish back then too. Fish & Game stocked mountain lakes with trout dumped out of fire bombers the year after forest fires.
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Old 10-26-2015, 06:10 PM
 
Location: NID
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I wonder if they got Jump pay???
Scott
They should have, and equal pay what the Office Beavers got.
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Old 10-27-2015, 12:52 AM
 
Location: Aiea, Hawaii
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They should have, and equal pay what the Office Beavers got.
Defiantly equal pay!!
You could not pay me to jump out of a good air plane!!
Scott
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Old 10-27-2015, 12:56 AM
 
Location: Aiea, Hawaii
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There were airborne fish back then too. Fish & Game stocked mountain lakes with trout dumped out of fire bombers the year after forest fires.
I remember a show i was watching a few years ago. Seems like the Fish and Game in Wyoming or Montana, maybe both! Were restocking trout in lakes in the hard to reach area's around Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP's. They were using float planes as i recall, to dump the trout in the lakes.
Really was a good progream to watch.
Scott
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Old 10-27-2015, 09:13 AM
 
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About beavers: I've been on a Grey Owl mission lately. I probably need to explain that: Grey Owl was a celebrated Canadian Indian writer in the 1930s, and my dad actually read his book about the Beaver People aloud to us when I was a kid. It took me a while last year to find out who the author of that book was--okay, so it was Grey Owl. Except he was not a Canadian Indian. After his death it was revealed that he was actually 100 percent British, and had made his way to Canada when he was in his late teens, and charmed his way into being adopted by a Canadian Indian tribe, which had been his dream ever since he was a young orphan in London. It is really quite a story! So as an adult he becomes the most celebrated spokesperson for the indigenous tribes in Canada, "Finally the Red Man Speaks!" and that kind of promotion. Books, public lectures, you name it. He even went on a promo tour back to England, in buckskin. And then, after his death, the story balloon inflated, and he was "disgraced." The thing was, he was the first voice for preservation of Canadian wilderness, and he was very eloquent and a great storyteller. He was really responsible for a whole new view of saving and restoring beaver habitats. So now there is a new narrative growing about Archie "Grey Owl," where he is viewed as a European who managed to live the dream and helped save his beloved, adopted environment.

They even made a movie about him, with Pierce Brosnan, "Grey Owl." I just watched it, and it really is a bittersweet, compelling story.
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