Beaver drop - Wikipedia wikipedia.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wikipedia.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It’s all part of history now. And, yes, it really did happen! Maybe you heard about it. But no, you probably didn’t. It happened about 75 years ago before most
Why beavers were parachuted into the Idaho wilderness 73 years ago nationalgeographic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalgeographic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Via Mary G in the thread below (I am clearly going insane because I forgot where the hell I saw it first and it was only a half hour ago in the comments here),
Via the twitter machine, I have today learned one of the greatest things to happen in the United States. Apparently, after WWII, Idaho faced a set of problems. They had a nuisance beaver problem, and a surplus of WWII parachutes. Some galaxy brain came up with a solution:
In 1948, the state of Idaho solved two problems in one go: a beaver nuisance, and a surplus of parachutes left over from World War II.
The Time Idaho Dealt With Its Surplus Of Beavers By Parachuting Them Into Its Backcountry iflscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iflscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.