VIDEO IDAHO AGENCY FINDS HISTORIC FOOTAGE OF PARACHUTING BEAVERS

GreenGecko

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I am not sure if it will link, for it is marked as "Age-restricted video"

For it does involve fur and beaver . :whistle: [The beaver action shots are about 8 min in]


Published on Oct 20, 2015
Parachuting beavers! A 14-minute “color film” (circa 1950 and complete with audio) produced by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to show trapping and transplanting of muskrat, beaver and martin.

For more information about Idaho Fish and Game, go to http://fishandgame.idaho.gov
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Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines).
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Travel & Events
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Standard YouTube License
 
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4RIVERS

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Watched that video the other day. Bet those beaver stayed away from traps after being boxed up and thrown out of an airplane. Pretty good idea to get them into the more remote areas too.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
This is the type of thing we used to do "back then." The modern version of this would be shooting the beaver with a sedative, and then putting them in a box and driving, or flying, them somewhere else. Actually, a lot of "wiped out" species have been sent back to their original range this way. The Rocky Mountain Goat has been inserted back into specific areas of Oregon and Washington this way. Beavers are fairly common these days. They were made damn near extinct, like the sea otter, in the 1800's due to the fur trade. Still, the idea of putting beavers in a parachute and dropping them into the wilderness would cause a mental health melt down in the PC, delusional, liberal uber nanny state the USA is here in 2015.
 

shane

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Watched that video the other day. Bet those beaver stayed away from traps after being boxed up and thrown out of an airplane. Pretty good idea to get them into the more remote areas too.

I was surprised how much the beavers were easily handled, they appeared
more tame and docile than I'd of imagined any wild beavers would have been.

- Shane
 

West

Senior
Well I enjoyed that. Even the old trucks. Fur was and is good.

The younger generations I was told hates fur and keeps them shaved?
 
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