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Subject: Beavers Take Flight ! Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:19 am
Beavers take flight! The forgotten film that shows rodents parachuting out of planes in relocation project
Video shows beavers being backed into crates and then dropped out of airplanes into the remote Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says they still relocate beavers, but not by air-dropping
More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of their daring airborne adventures. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers came up with the plant to parachute the rodents. They captured beavers and other furry rodents, packed them into special travel boxes, attached parachutes and dropped them from a plane into the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. [size=10][size=20]Beavers parachuted out of planes in archive footage
Animal lovers, take heart - it appears all the beavers made it through their flying
adventures unharmed. The film made around 1950 and dubbed 'Fur for the Future' showed the infamous beaver drops, but it had long been lost, Boise State Public Radio reported Thursday. Fish and Game historian Sharon Clark recently uncovered the fragile film, which had been mislabeled and stored in the wrong file. It has been digitized and released on YouTube by the department and the Idaho Historical Society. Trapping and transplanting beavers still happens today - but in less dramatic fashion.
+8 Recently surfaced footage from around 1950 shows Idaho Department of Fish and Game agents trapping beavers and then air-dropping them in a remote wilderness for a relocation project
+8 Before being packed away in the boxes attached to parachutes, the beavers are first tagged for research
+8 This rodent was none too happy to be packed away in the box, poked with holes, before the flight
+8 The boxes are then loaded onto a small propeller airplane to be flown to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
+8 Animal lovers, take heart - it appears all the beavers made it through their flying adventures unharmed. 'We haven't done airplane drops for 50-plus years, but it apparently worked pretty well back then to re-establish them in remote places,' said Steve Nadeau, Fish and Game's statewide fur bearer manager. The agency now moves beavers to the Owyhee desert, in the state's southwest corner, to help restore vegetation stripped away by years of watershed use. Nadeau says the goal is for beavers to make ponds in the region, which can hold water year-round.
+8 The beavers are dropped near rivers or lakes, and know how to find the water thanks to their senses
+8 The beaver peaks its head out of the wooden box and gets acquainted with its new home
+8 The Idaho Department of Fish and Game still relocates beavers but they no longer drop them out of airplanes
