The Beaver: Nature's Master Builder

by Frank Westcott

The beaver is nature's great builder: erecting lodges, burrowing dens and tunnels, constructing dams, digging canals, and creating vast winter food-caches. In some places, beavers have changed a landscape - forever. In all cases, beavers act as nature's engineers - managing forest growth, refurbishing soil, and providing a habitat for myriad species of wildlife. Once classified as a fish, hunted for the medical properties of its scent organs, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888821158
• ISBN13: 9780888821157
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.5"