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Author : Dean E. Medin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American beaver
ISBN : MINN:31951D03009589W
Author : John Becker,John E. Becker
Publisher : Kidhaven
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 073771011X
Discusses the history of beaver trapping and the fur trade, the near extinction of the species, the beaver's habits and habitat, and conservation efforts leading to the beaver's comeback.
Author : Peter E. Busher,Ryszard M. Dzieciolowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0306461218
This volume is a result of a symposium that was part of the Euro-American Mammal Congress. This volume is unique in that it includes reports from both Europe and North America on beaver ecology, management programmes and conservation efforts. The essence of the symposium and this volume is a reconciliation between humans and beavers.
Author : Jerry G Chmielewski
Publisher : Author House
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781524610579
The authors provide the tourist to western North America with a trilingual introduction to the wildlife. Our intent in this introductory guide is not to be exhaustive but instead to provide some background information on some of the wildlife3 you will hopefully encounter while visiting our rugged mountainous wilderness.
Author : Walter Penn Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Beavers
ISBN : UCAL:C3529757
Author : Ben Goldfarb
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 9781603587396
Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Peter E. Busher,Ryszard M. Dzieciolowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461547815
By the end of the 19th century both beaver species had been extirpated from large portions of their native ranges. The global decline in beaver populations was the direct re sult of exploitation by humans. Now, at the end of the 20th century, protection, manage ment, and reintroduction programs, coupled with a decline in the demand for beaver fur and other products, have allowed beaver populations to increase dramatically. Since bea vers actively modify their local environment their activities can conflict with human land use. Because of this, the beaver, once considered a unique and exotic component of wet lands, is now often considered a nuisance species. The history, as well as the current status, of beaver populations in Europe and North America provide insight into how con servation programs work, and into how humans and wildlife interact. The initial plenary lecture of the Euro-American Mammal Congress (July, 1998) was presented by Dr. Michael L. Rosenzweig, a professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rosenzweig discussed how humans have used and continue to use natural resources, in cluding wildlife and wildland. He provided evidence indicating that the current model of reservation conservation could not provide a long-term solution to the human-wild life/wildland conflict. Dr. Rosenzweig emphasized that what is required is a move away from purely exploitive activities (I would call this exploitive ecology) and the develop ment of a reconciliation ecology with wildlife.
Author : Dietland Müller-Schwarze,Lixing Sun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 080144098X
Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity, purify water, and prevent large-scale flooding. Biologists have long studied their daily and seasonal routines, family structures, and dispersal patterns. As human development encroaches into formerly wild areas, property owners and government authorities need new, nonlethal strategies for dealing with so-called nuisance beavers. At the same time, the complex behavior of beavers intrigues visitors at parks and other wildlife viewing sites because it is relatively easy to observe.In an up-to-date, exhaustively illustrated, and comprehensive book on beaver biology and management, Dietland Muller-Schwarze and Lixing Sun gather a wealth of scientific knowledge about both the North American and Eurasian beaver species. The Beaver is designed to satisfy the curiosity and answer the questions of anyone with an interest in these animals, from students who enjoy watching beaver ponds at nature centers to homeowners who hope to protect their landscaping. Photographs taken by the authors document every aspect of beaver behavior and biology, the variety of their constructions, and the habitats that depend on their presence. Beaver facts: Just as individual beavers shape their immediate surroundings, so did the distribution of beavers across North America influence the paths of English and French explorers and traders. As a result of the fur trade, beavers were wiped out across large areas of the United States. Reintroduction efforts led to the widespread establishment of these resilient animals, and now they are found throughout North America, Europe, and parts of the southern hemisphere. Beaver meadows provided early settlers with level, fertile pastures and hayfields. Based on the fossil record, the smallest extinct beaver species were the size of a muskrat, and the largest may have reached the size of a black bear (five to six times as large as today's North American beavers). Beaver-gnawed wood has been found alongside the skeleton of a mastodon. Some beavers remain in the home lodge for an extra year to assist their parents in raising younger siblings. They feed, groom, and guard the newborn kits. In 1600, beaver ponds covered eleven percent of the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers' watershed above Thebes, Illinois. Restoring only 3 percent of the original wetlands might suffice to prevent catastrophic floods such as those in the early 1990s."
Author : George A. Feldhamer,Bruce C. Thompson,Joseph A. Chapman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801874165
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Author : Frank Rosell,Róisín Campbell-Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192571991
Beavers are represented by two extant species, the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the North American beaver (Castor canadensis); each has played a significant role in human history and dominated wetland ecology in the northern hemisphere. Their behaviour and ecology both fascinate and perhaps even infuriate, but seemingly never fail to amaze. Both species have followed similar histories from relentless persecution to the verge of extinction (largely through hunting), followed by their subsequent recovery and active restoration which is viewed by many as a major conservation success story. Beavers have now been reintroduced throughout Europe and North America, demonstrating that their role as a keystone engineer is now widely recognised with proven abilities to increase the complexity and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems. What animals other than humans can simultaneously act as engineers, forest workers, carpenters, masons, creators of habitats, and nature managers? Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authoritative synthesis is now timely. This accessible text goes beyond their natural history to describe the impacts on humans, conflict mitigation, animal husbandry, management, and conservation. Beavers: Ecology, Behaviour, Conservation, and Management is an accessible reference for a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and graduate students, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and amateur natural historians intrigued by these wild animals and the extraordinary processes of nature they exemplify.
Author : Horace T. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Beavers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107351124
Author : Frank Rosell,Róisín Campbell-Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198835042
Beavers are represented by two extant species, the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the North American beaver (Castor canadensis); each has played a significant role in human history and dominated wetland ecology in the northern hemisphere. Their behaviour and ecology both fascinate and perhaps even infuriate, but seemingly never fail to amaze. Both species have followed similar histories from relentless persecution to the verge of extinction (largely through hunting), followed by their subsequent recovery and active restoration which is viewed by many as a major conservation success story. Beavers have now been reintroduced throughout Europe and North America, demonstrating that their role as a keystone engineer is now widely recognised with proven abilities to increase the complexity and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems. What animals other than humans can simultaneously act as engineers, forest workers, carpenters, masons, creators of habitats, and nature managers? Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authoritative synthesis is now timely. This accessible text goes beyond their natural history to describe the impacts on humans, conflict mitigation, animal husbandry, management, and conservation. Beavers: Ecology, Behaviour, Conservation, and Management is an accessible reference for a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and graduate students, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and amateur natural historians intrigued by these wild animals and the extraordinary processes of nature they exemplify.
Author : Kim Long
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000045025907
Included in this title are detailed guides to the behavior, biology, and ecological impact of this species. Examined in detail are the instinctive habits and behaviors used by beavers to build lodges and dams. An important focus is placed on the reality of what beavers actually do compared to the myths that have been propagated about them for hundreds of years.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CHI:82604942
Author : Frances Backhouse
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770907553
“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers—sixty million, or more—and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived. Once They Were Hats examines humanity’s fifteen-thousand–year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver’s even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers; from a bustling workshop where craftsmen make beaver-felt cowboy hats using century-old tools to a tidal marsh where an almost-lost link between beavers and salmon was recently found, it’s a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they’re returning. “Fascinating and smartly written.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)