{"id":1987,"date":"2014-10-17T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:29","slug":"skydiving-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Skydiving Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beavers1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1989\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beavers1.jpg\" alt=\"Beavers\" width=\"692\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beavers1.jpg 692w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beavers1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Idaho decided the best way to move beavers was to airdrop them!<br \/>\nJust the title &#8211; &#8220;Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute&#8221; &#8211; of this 1950 report in the Journal of Wildlife Management raises questions. Like, for goodness sake, why? And how? Did they specially make tiny beaver-sized parachutes and goggles, and push them out of the cargo hold, one by one, like a tiny dam-making army? Once on the ground, did the beavers suffer post-traumatic stress from the sudden drop? Or did they spend the rest of their days mourning in rivers, longing for another taste of the sky? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/beavers-on-parachutes-144129480\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beavers, Their Dams Put to Work Restoring Streams <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/nuisance-beavers-put-work-restoring-streams-26009684\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beavers as neighbors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/beavers-are-great-environment-neighbors-not-so-much-n329986\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho decided the best way to move beavers was to airdrop them! Just the title &#8211; &#8220;Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute&#8221; &#8211; of this 1950 report in the Journal of Wildlife Management raises questions. Like, for goodness sake, why? And how? Did they specially make tiny beaver-sized parachutes and goggles, and push them out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}