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Beaver Hunt

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The beaver is a force of 15 to forty million highly skilled environmental engineers. Beavers live in dams they construct from tree branches and mud surrounded by water, which creates a hard barrier that's difficult for preditors to penetrate. Paint and fencing can protect trees from gnawing the beaveris handiwork,. i'd call it toothy work, can be silently undone with pipes that drain water from beaver settlements. The system is known as the beaver deceiver. Yes, not since confound a hound and mislead a steed has the field of animal deception been so mutually beneficial. But no, seriously, you can't so here in the us. Beavers cannot

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