Are There Beavers Living in Booth Park?
A reader sent in this picture, asking: is this a collection of sticks and mud in Birmingham's Booth Park a beaver dam?
Could there be a beavers living along the Rouge River in Birmingham? One reader was wondering that very thing, tweeting a picture of what appears to be a beaver dam along the wood chip trail in Birmingham's Booth Park. According to the photographer, resident Mary Ellen Johnson, the photo was snapped this weekend during a walk along the trail. Her dog, she said, even used the collection of sticks, leaves and mud to cross the Rouge River as it runs through that section of Booth Park. Beavers in the Rouge River have been top of mind for many area naturalists recently. In the spring newsletter for the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Environmental Interpretative Center (EIC), the EIC's Rich Simek writes that he snapped a picture of a beaver …
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Heidi Perryman
10:48 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Not sure I see dam in that photo but I'm delighted you're interested in one! Since the jury's out at the moment, why not take the time to invest in some community beaver-education, learning about the good beavers do and how to mitigate problems before they get there! My own low-lying city was surprised by the arrival of beavers 5 years ago. There were concerns about flooding which we controlled … more ›