Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:07:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: Huntley Meadows drainage In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 2/3/04 12:29 PM, Gail Mackiernan at gail@MDSG.UMD.EDU wrote: > Beavers are usually very quick to repair their dams, if possible -- > sometimes too quick when dams are breached to prevent road flooding. > What are the beavers doing? (I realize they may be keeping low profile > during the worst weather but would expect they might try to do > something about the dam when it warms up a bit -- lack of water > covering the underwater entrances to their lodges makes them > vulnerable to predators such as mink.) They have eaten all the saplings in the area and moved on as beaver are wont to do. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================