NATURE’S MASTER BUILDERS
Sep 01, 2022
3 minutes
by Ellen Hardsog
eavers choose a river or a stream for their home and set up housekeeping early in the summer. A male and a female beaver make a temporary home of mud and branches at the riverbank. They then begin the process of building a dam to create the pond for their permanent lodge. Working primarily at night, the beavers fell trees by chewing through the trunks. They drag the trees to the water and sink them upright into the mud at the bottom of the
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