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Kentucky Color - Beaver lodge Comfortable quarters with underwater entrances afford high and dry lifestyle for the aquatic and mostly nocturnal animals, plentiful in this area - but rarely noticed by most, except for those who go looking: Naturalists like the writer, habitat altering Corps (plural, spelled same as singular, for Great Wooded South Lexicon readers) or for those for whom the location of photo is not revealed, the writers' friends and trappers. Sometimes, the writer notes - and for reasons known but to these fascinating natural engineers alone - the lodges are sited streamside. Click on headline for essay and photo(s) By Billy Joe Fudge Traditionally, beaver build dams on small streams to impound water to an appropriate depth for lodge building. They then build their lodges or homes beginning on the stream bed to three, four, or five feet above the level of the water. The room is high and dry above the water level with an underwater entrance for safety and access during extended cold weather when the surface of the stream is frozen. Beaver however, will take to stream-bank lodge building when the stream's flow rate is too fast and the volume of flow is too great to be conducive for lodge building in the stream itself. This beaver lodge is located within plain site about a hundred yards from a highway. For now I am not divulging the location so as to protect the innocent. The entrance is located beneath the water line and the living quarters are almost on top of the bank beneath the sticks, limbs and debris which are all cemented together with mud. - Billy Joe Fudge This story was posted on 2012-01-27 05:13:25
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