In Pr. William,Some Eager Fifth-Graders Save Some Beavers

The Washington Post;  December 22, 1991 ;   Avis Thomas-Lester;   495 words ...Beavers living in Prince William County's Neabsco Creek have found...week protested a county plan to relocate the family. The beavers - believed to be a father, mother and two offspring - have...there - ferns, spores, spiders, rabbits and, of course, the beavers. The dam's dead leaves and broken branches ...

Peabody commission votes to stay execution of beavers

The Boston Globe;  December 11, 1994 ;   Andrew Blake, Globe Staff;   648 words ......voted unanimously to allow a family of beavers to stay in their lodge while nonlethal...trapping and killing are explored. The beavers have built a dam at a culvert on Lake...water damage to their property, say the beavers should be moved. Other residents around...

Beavers' Boom Gnaws at Many Along Patuxent

The Washington Post;  May 12, 1988 ;     357 words ......a new and dramatic population boom of beavers in southern Maryland. But although naturalists...especially in western Anne Arundel County, beavers are chewing trees, ruining landscaping...once near extinction. Just 20 years ago, beavers were hardly evident anywhere in Maryland...

Farmers protest at plan to bring beavers back to Britain after 400 years

The Independent - London;  December 28, 2001 ;   Paul Kelbie Scotland Correspondent;   605 words ...MORE THAN 400 years after beavers were hunted to extinct-ion in Britain...for permission to import a colony of beavers from Norway. The ecology organisation...a reintroduction scheme. The first beavers could arrive in Britain by autumn and...

EAGER BEAVERS HAVE SOME CRYING FOUL HOWELL PARK DAMS FLOODING REITZ...

Evansville Courier & Press;  April 11, 2003 ;   MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or mwilson@evansville.net;   660 words ......presence in the Howell Wetlands is causing. Beavers have lived at the 23-acre urban wetlands...Howell Wetlands Committee, "but we want the beavers to be there. They are the most important...Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. The problem is that the beavers have apparently exhausted their food supply...

Martinez beavers saved amid public outcry

Oakland Tribune;  November 8, 2007 ;   Scott Marshall;   502 words ...MARTINEZ -- A family of beavers will be spared a death sentence after...dam to prevent downtown flooding. The beavers instead will be trapped and quarantined...percent of them say don't kill the beavers," said Schroder, who approached the...

Busy beavers plague Moline's waterways

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 9, 2001 ;   ASSOCIATED PRESS;   354 words ...MOLINE (AP) - Beavers, chew on this. Fed up with all the dam...man of sorts, to trap and kill the busy beavers responsible. "I like animals, like everyone...Society who has snared and killed five beavers - one a 70-pounder - so far. "But I'm...

Construction Firm Tries to Blast Out Beavers at Tallahassee, Fla., Store...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 21, 2001 ;     598 words ......Maybe they prefer country music, but beavers apparently don't rock 'n' roll. A construction...say they'll install more speakers if the beavers don't come back. We've done some unusual...to find a way to rid themselves of the beavers, who persist in building dams that block...

Leave it to Beavers to shake up the status quo

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 11, 1999 ;   Cate Plys;   650 words ...Ald. William Beavers will say into a bank of microphones what...Council's Committee on Police and Fire, Beavers introduced a resolution at Wednesday's...to some aldermen, such as Richard Mell, Beavers is moving too fast. According to the protesters...

FIELD GUIDE TO ... SEARCHING FOR BEAVERS? TRY TOWN'S MAP

Roanoke Times & World News;  May 7, 2006 ;     420 words ......election's over, is it safe to write about the beavers again? Because, frankly, these beavers have to go! During a recent trip to Blacksburg...park, I obtained photographic evidence that the beavers are not only chewing down trees, but they're...

Beavers build first dam in west for 800 years ; Beavers have built a dam...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 11, 2008 ;   Adam Wilshaw;   390 words ...Beavers have built a dam in the Westcountry for the first time...Park - to home a pair of unrelated wild-caught Bavarian beavers, which were born in spring 2006. The herbivorous rodents...so far, in Britain, where there are only a handful of beavers in private collections. John-Michael Kennaway, from the...

BEAVERS FIND NEW HOME AT STATE PARK

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle;  June 12, 2003 ;   Ty Stocktonoutdoors@wyomingnews.com;   703 words ......F.E. Warren Air Force Base's case, 15 beavers. "The Air Force told me there's five, six families (of beavers on base)," said Scot Withers, tree specialist...the base." Withers found out about the beavers when he visited the base to talk to the...

Metro Officials Seek Alternative To Killing Beavers; 2 Groups Advocate...

The Washington Post;  September 26, 2002 ;   Raymond Thibodeaux;   628 words ......hiring a professional trapper to kill the beavers, this time Metro officials are considering...method of dealing with the troublesome beavers. "We had a very informative and good meeting...device is a trapezoid-shaped fence that, to beavers, resembles a completed dam. Even if beavers...

Beavers Offer Solution to Climate Change

NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  May 3, 2008 ;   ANDREA SEABROOK;   787 words ......Weekend All Things Considered 05-03-2008 Beavers Offer Solution to Climate Change Host...SEABROOK, host: Fighting climate change with beavers? It's Science Out of a Box. (Soundbite of music) SEABROOK: Some biologists say beavers could help drought by building dams. To...

Colony of beavers besiege Bethany; Experts modify critters' dam to save...

New Haven Register;  December 14, 2006 ;   Abram Katz;   691 words ...If beavers had their way a lot of Bethany would be...field - while not riling the rodents. The beavers stayed in their peaked woody lodge as Skip...waders. That expansion was the problem. The beavers, probably a family of 5-to-8, spent an...