Beaver Nation is growing. With improved environmental clean up of the Detroit River, the area has seen the first sign of a beaver in about 75 years. Congrats Detroit! Click here to read the full article in USA Today. Here’s an excerpt:
Beavers have returned to Detroit for the first time in 75 years, The Detroit Free Press reports.
The newspaper says a single beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at Detroit Edison’s Conners Creek power plant on Detroit’s east riverfront. Plant workers using motion-sensitive cameras also caught a photograph and a video of a beaver.
(from the Detroit Edison)
–mko
Wow, hope it goes well on the natural re-population. Over here in Scotland they have been extinct for several hundred years but ae now starting to be reintroduced. In fact, a few of the breeding pairs they brought over from Europe escaped into England so perhaps they will be getting their own wee population too!
Detroit will be a much happier place from here on out!
I’m a bit worried that this lone lodge could be more of a freak accident, (such as a whale swimming up river) rather than a signal of a slow change in trends. Is there much evidence to suggest that the environmental clean up would be sufficient enticement for the beavers to return?
Si
Improved environmental clean up of the Detroit River, Congratulation, Detroit!!
It’s always nice when a species begins to flourish again.
75 years is a long time. It shows you how much things can be improved if there is a will. I hope more show up and establish a viable long-term community
There have been many rivers that carried waste and run off into the Great Lakes/Detroit River (Huron, Rouge, etc.). There have been many efforts into cleaning up the waste and it is now showing off.