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IamBobBarker on May 07, 2010 2:51am
world's biggest beaver seen from space!!!
i shite you not, friends. that's a damn big beaver!
Canadian beaver dam can be seen from space
BY KAREN KLEISS, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COMMAY 6, 2010
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Wood Buffalo Park on Wednesday released the only known photgraphs of the world's largest beaver dam, tucked deep in the south east corner of the world's second-largest protected area.
Photograph by: Steve Anderson/Wood Buffalo National Park, edmontonjournal.com
EDMONTON — Perhaps the most amazing thing about the world's biggest beaver dam is that nobody knew it existed, until a scientist spotted it on a satellite image taken from space.
The enormous dam is, perhaps, a reminder that there are still wild places on Earth, places where the natural world still rules.
One such place is found in a lush, remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, tucked at the base of Alberta's Birch Mountains. There, generations of beavers have laboured for decades on an 850-metre-long dam that is longer than eight football fields stretched end-to-end, or one and a half times the height of the CN Tower.
The beavers of Wood Buffalo have worked for at least 35 years to build the dam, which means it has already taken 15 years longer to build than the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world.
The beavers are still building, and the dam still causes a stir more than three years after its discovery.
Environmental scientist Jean Thie was actually trying to figure out the effect of melting permafrost when he started noticing the beaver dams and measuring them as a hobby.
"This one is spectacularly long," he said in an interview Wednesday, noting most beaver dams are less than 100 metres long. "It is part of the 'beaver belt' that runs from lower lands around the Riding Mountain National Park (in Manitoba) up through (Alberta's) Birch Mountains."
"They are remarkable water engineers," he said. "There are some really exceptional beaver landscapes, where you have hundreds of dams that are affecting the streams.
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