Prairie Beaver

So blogging on a daily basis is hard. In my defense lots of things have been happening around here. I am *drum roll please* moving to Moosomin, Saskatchewan. I got a job at the World Spectator, a local independent paper and I have good pal already out there.
It's a big change, but I am hoping it offers me (and anyone reading my posts regularly) a different perspective in things.
All of which means that my blogs are going to be Moosomin-centric, as of June 1st.



In the spirit of the prairies I thought I'd share this cute tidbit.
Turns out, Alberta has the worlds largest beaver dam. The 850-meter rodent compound is half the length of the CN tower and can be seen from space.
In 2007 Ottawa-based ecologist, Jean Thie, used NASA and Google satellite technology to locate the giant dam.
He posted the information on the Canadian Institute of Geomatics website, but has only recently made headlines- probably in part due to the layout of the site.
Thie told the Edmonton journal that the dam is part of the beaver belt' that runs from Riding Mountain National Park, in Manitoba, up through Alberta's Birch Mountains.
Generations of beavers worked on the massive structure, which took more than 35 years to build.
According to scientists beavers are the only other known mammal, aside from humans, that manufactures their own environment.
Beavers are also monogamous and mate for life.
What's good for the beaver...