Posted on Oct 29, 2022
Milwaukee welcomes back beavers, after hunting and pollution drove the industrious rodents away
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The American beaver was once a fixture of this area, at the confluence of three rivers by the shores of Lake Michigan. Then the region's first European residents made Milwaukee one of their main fur trading posts. They hunted and trapped beavers for their pelts, and the population plummeted.
Milwaukee welcomes back beavers, after hunting and pollution drove the industrious rodents away
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Milwaukee
Wildlife
Posted 2 y ago
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We almost succeeded in wiping them out, fortunately that didn't hsppen.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Great share Brother Chip! I love watching documentaries about beavers. America's natural engineers!
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Cpl Vic Burk
SSgt (Join to see) - They have started this here in Tennessee finally. But they still don't teach them how to tell time on an analog clock! A couple weeks ago I taught my class how to do this...no kidding!
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