Beavers Research Paper

Q2.) As Henry David continued to observe the Woodchuck his carefree attitude slowly began to alter into new found respect. While first examining the groundhog, he found the animal to be funny and clumsy, with its chubby face and small, round ears. When Henry tried to toy with the Woodchuck, it just stared back at him standing its ground. This was the moment Henry David Thoreau realized that the Woodchuck is adapting to his very presence. Henry David acknowledges the animal as a truly humble creature. Thoreau realized that the Woodchuck was a much more acclimate creature than us humans. This occasion has helped him learn that patience is key to adapting, and that wisdom and knowledge can be learned on a daily basis.

If everyone thought this way our wildlife, animals, nature, and environment would be in better the way you would want them to be treated. This saying is simply stating to people love to have nice things and when we get them we like to keep it that way. So in relation to Leopold we have a nice beautiful environment in which we should keep it that way. Think of our environment as a condition than what it is now. Aldo Leopold was right when he said “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and the beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”(Sand CountyAlmanac, pg. 224-225). It is important for people to reach and follow the values of Leopold explaining that beauty is not just scenery, stability does not mean unchanging for change is essential to nature and the natural world and integrity is wholeness, having all the parts. These three simple values will change our perspective of the

Evidence: “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essentials facts of life”(Thoreau’s “Walden”)

Burrowing owls are an amazing species of owl that is currently in danger. Historically, the owl

The study conducted by Weisle, Nagaswami, and Peterson is displayed about river otters and how they are different in structure from other marine mammals. River otters must depend on their thick layer of hair for survival. River otters are semi-aquatic mammals, which are considered to have denser fur than any other mammals. It’s thick, sleek coat, which keeps it dry and warm, is made up of two types of hair. The longer outer hairs are water repellent as known as guard hairs, and the other is underhair. The guard hairs could provide some protection for the more delicate underhairs. The three authors of this article, “River otter hair structure facilitates interlocking to impede penetration of water and allow,” addresses a question upon why the

The subspecies was also listed as a highest priority “Species of Special Concern” by the State of California (USFWS, 1998). There are many factors that play into why the Point Arena mountain beaver is classified as endangered. In addition to their low reproductive rate, according to USFWS (1998), the vulnerability of the mountain beaver results from two reasons: 1) few populations with extremely limited distribution; and 2) the number of individual populations are low. Habitat loss and fragmentation is another concern for the Point Arena mountain beaver, any disaster, natural or manmade, has the potential to impact the subspecies (USFWS, 1998). These threats include, elimination or degradation from land development, livestock grazing, transportation and utility corridors, invasion of alien plant species, and timber harvest (USFWS, 1998). Additional threats to the subspecies include, predation by feral animals and household pets, poisoning, human caused disturbances, clumped and fragmented distribution, vulnerability to localized catastrophic events, like fires, storms, landslides, flooding, prolonged drought, and/or disease, and most notably genetic isolation and drift (USFWS,

Antonio Beaver was a normal, family-loving person, never having committed a crime, and had a great life. But on August 15th, 1996, a carjacking took place in a parking lot in St. Louis, Missouri. Antonio Beaver was a man who believed in himself and didn’t stop at nothing to prove his innocence. He was wrongfully accused of committing the crime because of the vague description given to the police by the victim.

Within Aldo Leopold’s Thinking Like a Mountain and Annie Dillard’s Living Like a Weasel there is a communal theme, which incorporates the conflict between people and nature. Throughout Dillard’s piece, she uses comparisons between the life of humans and the life of a wild weasel while applying the theme of freedom of choice. After an unexpected encounter with a weasel, Dillard concludes that humans can learn from the wild freedom of weasel. She states, “...I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive” (Dillard 8). In Aldo Leopold’s writing, his overall motive is to communicate to the reader that we humans must not destroy the wilderness, as

The shira moose, also known as the Alces Alces Shirasi, is the smallest subspecies of moose weighing approximately 500-760 pounds on average at maturity. The shira moose resides mainly in America (Oregon, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Washington) but has also been spotted in southern Canada. Like all other subspecies of moose, the shiras moose tends to reside generally in areas that are abundant in plant and forest life.

I have trapped over 40 years at Peerless Lake many years ago and now returned and have travelled all my life in the woods. I could tell you many instances of timber wolves and the moose, and on those days there were millions of rabbits as feed for the wolf [my emphasis], and today very few rabbits. Perhaps today you don’t realize the destruction of the moose between the hunters and wolves and bears.

Camp Middle Moose was one of my best days ever! It's one week of awesomeness! I get to try new things next year, and then try other things in the next. One week you get to spend at Camp Middle Moose, it's so exciting! It might be a drag from doing a lot of things that you are not used to, but you can get over it in a day, just have fun.

Jean Nicolet, landed at Red Banks Green Bay, in 1634. His arrival would lead to the popular trade of Beaver fur in Green Bay, Wisconsin. While, there were many types of fur that would be traded in this area, such as otter, white-tailed deer, badger, fox, muskrat, and bear, beaver by far was the most to be desired. The allure for beaver fur was that the fur was entirely water proof. Water proof fur was the most preferred at this time as majority of people during this period would work outside, i.e.: farmers, or transporter of goods.

The coyote and badger is a great example of mutualism. Coyotes normally don’t hunt in packs or in tight knit groups but is often found hunting with the badger. The best example would be hunting in prairie dog fields. The coyote takes the prairie dogs on the ground while scaring other dogs into their holes where the badger is. When the badger hunts underground catching it’s prey it also scares dogs up to the ground where the coyote is. So basically the badger and coyote work together to corner up the prairie dogs and eat until they get their fill.

One of the largest rodents is the Sciuridae family is the Woodchuck (Marmota Monax) or more commonly known as the Groundhog. It is a fairly common animal most heavily found in the north and north eastern parts of the United States and across most of Canada (Encyclopedia of Life, 2015). Most Woodchucks choose to live in a habitat of grasslands or along the edge of a forest. They tend to like a cooler climate, but during the heart of winter they will hibernate in burrows that they dig throughout the year. The Woodchuck is a incredibly interesting animal that creates elaborate burrows for homes and one of the true hibernators.

During his time, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist who believed in the longevity of the land and that we should protect it, even if we must protect the land from ourselves. While this was an unpopular opinion, realizing that the land and animals naturally work together in a symbiotic relationship to protect one another was very apparent to Leopold. He believed that humans should be doing our best to lessen our impact on the environment. Time has caught up with Leopold’s ideologies and it is time that our efforts and contributions to the earth did too.