On International Beaver Day, you can gnaw on International Beaver Day. If you want to mark the day, you should use wood. Dorothy Richards, the Beaver Woman, on her birthday, is honored on April 7 in honor of the Beaver Woman, Dorothy Richards. Beaversprite Sanctuary in New York's Adirondack Mountains for fifty years, Dorothy Richards studied beavers at Beaversprite Sanctuary.
According to wildlife historians, there were up to 60 million beavers in North America in the early 1800s. Their fur and their musk became extremely useful products, so they were trapped to near extinction. In North America, there are an estimated 6-million beavers.
- Beavers were once considered fish by the Catholic Church, who also classified them as fish
- The beaver is Canada's national symbol
- Beaver pairs are monogamous, and they live together for multiple breeding seasons
- North American beavers prefer the (inner) bark of aspen and poplar, but will also be available in birch, maple, willow, alder, black cherry, red oak, ash, hornbeam, and occasionally pine and spruce
- Beaver dams are constructed as a shield against predators such as coyotes, wolves, and bears, as well as providing convenient access to food during winter
- Beavers can always work at night and are prolific builders, lugging mud and stones between their teeth and firs with their fore-paws and timber between their teeth, and being a prolific builder
How to observe
- On Wikipedia, read the beavers' biography
- Dorothy Richards' book Beaversprite: My Years Building an Animal Sanctuary by Dorothy Richards
- Take a walk to a beaver pond
- Beavers are the subject of a public library display
- Attend a workshop on this environmental engineering animal
To keep up on social media, use #InternationalBeaverDay to track.
History
Mrs. Richards' life as a naturalist and educator is inspired by other wildlife enthusiasts, botanists, and scientists. So, in 2008, the Board of Directors of Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife selected her birthday, April 7, for International Beaver Day. The group released and distributed one-thousand copies of the "Coexisting with Beavers" DVD on the first International Beaver Day on the first International Beaver Day.
More than 100,000 visitors came to her house, where two beaver families lived in a row. Beaversprite, My Years Building an Animal Sanctuary As part of her life work to enlighten the public about this critically endangered yet shy species, she wrote Beaversprite, My Years Building an Animal Sanctuary.
Dorothy Richards' "Beaver Woman" Dorothy Richards' widow, Dorothy Richards', educational associates, founded Friends of Beaversprite, a charity that continues her education efforts after her death in 1985.
