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Mini-Stories: Volume 15

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Relocating Beavers in the Wild West

By the 1930s, relocating beavers was actually a pretty common practice. Partly this was to get them out of the way of encroaching humans but also because they were hugely important to ecosystems. Conservationists tried all kinds of solutions including strapping boxes of beavers to the backs of horses and mules. And these pack animals were then led by people sometimes for days deep into the wilderness with their live cargo. It just wasn't a good time.

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