This evening, we watched a beaver eating willow and bamboo growing in
a freshwater pond here on Pawleys Plantation. It's the first live beaver I've ever seen that wasn't on
exhibit in some man-made enclosure. So cool.
Unfortunately the Golf Course
maintenance people say they will kill it if they see it because
beavers damage trees and eat vegetation. That's the pot calling the
kettle black.. The golf maintenance people must have taken out a hundred
trees since they took over the course last year, and last spring their workers have
taken out most of the bushes and rushes in the saltwater marshes that
border the course ( eliminating habitat the marsh birds rely on for nesting). They
even took down the bald cypress and other trees along the marsh that
the endangered American Wood-storks and egrets used for a rookery. They said that the birds droppings were too unsightly and their noise was annoying the residents of the Wood-stork Condominiums units ( how ironic ). Those last two
stunts cost us our Audubon habitat rating. Real Conservationists,
that crew!
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