Crazy Beavers

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The busy little fellows have built a dam that can be seen from space. This dam is just over 1/2 mile in long. Considering it takes six town workers two weeks to fill in a medium sized pot hole this thing is really something. The fact that this story dates back to the 1990's also indicates that our news media is among the slowest on earth (sorry - no satellite images of the media).

Media abuzz over Alberta's huge beaver dam

CBC News

British and American media are buzzing about the world's largest beaver dam in northern Alberta, a dam first found using Google Earth in 2007.

The dam on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park is about 850 metres long. It's common for beaver dams in Canada to reach 500 metres in length.

Park officials said the dam is in an inaccessible part of the park just south of Lac Clair, about 190 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray.

Biologists estimate the dam would have taken at least 20 years to build. It is visible in NASA satellite imagery from 1990.

"[Beavers] are one of the few species that really leave a footprint on the Earth that is visible from satellite," ecologist Jean Thie told CBC News in an interview in 2008.

The previously reported largest beaver dam was a 652-metre structure in Three Forks, Mont., Thie said.

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The Google satellite map (if you look closely you might be able to make out the cheeky little buggers mooning the camera) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 19162&z=16