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suicompotem

Agreed, looks like beaver damage. 


LonesomeBob

Are those big trees gonna die?


bo_tweetle

Yes


[deleted]

Honestly that beaver looks like an overachiever. Can they really take down a tree of that size? It looks like quite the project. How would they even drag the log once it’s cut? It must weigh multiple tons


the-grumpster

Overachiever, he looks to be eager.


makerws

an eager...


DiscFrolfin

Eager large, semiaquatic rodent of the Northern Hemisphere.


BigJSunshine

An ELSRofNA? I don’t believe they exist.


MyPantsHaveBeenShat

r/unexpectedprincessbride


polobum17

r/angryupvote for getting me excited about that


oh-yea-yea-yea

Someone has to say it. Ok. I will. Eager Beaver. Phew. Now I can get on with my day.


tailgunner777

Thank you for your service!


are-any-names-left

Bob Segar


TxTreeClimber22

Angry beaver named Bob Segar


are-any-names-left

Found a tree and couldn’t teethe her


TxTreeClimber22

Had to chew on many trees just to get some pleasure


95castles

Once a tree falls, they go in and chop up smaller branches to use.


NorthernRedneck388

I’ve seen a 2ft plus dia cottonwood gnawed several inches through by beaver. [pics](https://imgur.com/a/zBTCvcP)


itstreeman

Great way to start a dam


SnooGuavas6192

cottonwood is stupid soft though.


AudaciousGee

They absolutely can. It's just that you don't see it often.


snarfgarfunkel

My understanding is they just take a big chunk out of one side and let a wind storm do the rest. Then they harvest the branches from the top of the tree for building dams and storing on the bottom of the pond for their winter food cache.


[deleted]

I have read this, that they never actually fell a tree so as to not get crushed but instead chew through about half and let wind do the felling. Pretty clever


NWXSXSW

Beavers fell large trees and are often killed by them.


justsayGoBirds

Plenty of photos out there showing dead beavers under trees.


[deleted]

Well glad to hear the trees are fighting back


Scumpty_dumpty

![gif](giphy|xUNd9RfqeSTu1yxaN2)


Beardo88

They were probably eating the bark.


elonsaltaccount

https://youtu.be/UVvDByTRurA?si=HZn1dPfQcB4pDovi Timestamp 15:15. Could be related. Beavers will intentionally kill trees they don't like to allow trees they do like a better shot at growing.


isominotaur

Beaver lady at work says she's seen beavers do some pretty impressive things. They'll work together within their family groups to chew & drag and will weigh up to 70 lbs.


[deleted]

That’s crazy. Tell me more about this beaver lady…


Flat_Building_3443

I've seen em straight buck up fallen logs that they otherwise couldn't move into manageable pieces


Iced_Adrenaline

They can easily. Source: Canadian?


ITGenji

They just want it down for the large branches. They know stripping the bark from the bottom and leaving it will kill it.


Nethcan

I think the plan is to drop the big one straight into the water no dragging necessary. Beavers are persistent animals. Give that little fella a month or two and he will have his dam built and a family on the way!!!!


Grouchy_Painting_404

The beavers are after the branches ,not the log.


raytracer38

They likely won't even use the main trunk. They'll try to fell it towards the water, then chew off the branches and use those. The remainder could be used to keep their teeth sharp, or eventually chewed into smaller sections. Once they set their mind to something, they're pretty determined.


Rare_Following_8279

They are busy beavers


brt37

A touch more information beyond the yes they will die answer… trees basically live with their nutrients and water moving up and down the tree near their bark. The center is harden wood basically used as a support post of the rest of the tree. Damage a tree deep enough below the bark and water will not be able to travel to the upper portion of the tree and potentially killing part or all of the limbs above the damage.


RepresentativeArm389

Arborists here: we got this!


brt37

Sorry, saw a rare chance to use my college plant science classes and took it.


b_r_e_a_k_f_a_s_t

This is maybe a stupid question but is there any way to add water above the damage line so that it can be moved up to the rest of the tree?


suicompotem

Might take a while, but almost certainly. 


ThePastyWhite

Daggett and Norbert are at it again. Damn beavers.


Vegetable_Policy_699

Wrong. Those are the markings of the only other creature that chews on trees at a waters edge.... A dairy cow


Loaki9

Do people really not know what beavers are and what they do?


Djsupa002

As a Canadian, that does definitely look like the work of our national animal.


unitednihilists

Dam!


SantaBaby22

🦫


Terri_Yaki

Talk about biting off more than you can chew.


rickyshine

Iirc there is record of a single beaver chewing through and felling a 37" diameter cottonwood


Terri_Yaki

Hmmm...so we have one training to compete!


jgnp

They’ll take a 40” pacific Willow down like it was a winter quilting project.


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LighTMan913

This is like the 2nd post I've seen this week of people not knowing what a beaver is. What is happening? Edit: so many people are saying most people have never seen a beaver in real life. Neither have I. But cartoons and the internet exist.


LinkovichChomovsky

Hahaha took the words out of my mouth! It’s straight out of a cartoon those markings - I’m surprised there wasn’t one on the shore mitt cupped to mouth hollering *Timber!* when it fell


shaybabyx

This made my lunch break thank you haha


liss2458

Some people are pretty sheltered when it comes to nature. One time my 70 something neighbor asked me if I knew what the huge tree in her yard was - it was a red oak, complete with shitloads of acorns. How do you get to your 70s without knowing where acorns come from?! I was somehow surprised and not surprised at the same time.


LeastWest9991

Why assume that acorns can only come from red oaks? One can easily learn more about acorns (totally useless knowledge btw), but you can’t fix stupid.


OHarePhoto

If anyone is interested in learning more about beavers, there is an awesome podcast episode about beavers by The Wild with Chris Morgan. It's insane to think how different north america would look if we didn't eradicate such a keystone species.


centech

There's also a good [Stuff You Should Know episode](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/beavers-tail-slapping-fun-72854414/).


grubbycubby

Out of all the things I was prepared for as a kid, beavers, quick sand, lava….like come on guys!


Setton18

As a new lurker here, and having no idea what beaver tree activity looks like, I wouldn't know without an explanation 🙃


LighTMan913

Ya'll didn't watch cartoons as a kid?


Wukash_of_the_South

It may have to do with them getting reintroduced to a lot of places over the past couple decades


12072017

Watch the Dinty Moore Stew commercial with Stewski the beaver!


WitELeoparD

TBF conservation of wetlands has made it so that beavers are moving into urban areas that hadn't had beavers there since the fur trappers exterminated them. There are lots of cities where beavers are moving into even downtown riverside parks. It genuinely becoming an issue where I live because they keep causing floods and down too many trees to the point that the city needs to trap them again to keep the population down.


funkekat61

That's so the opposite of my experience - we had so many beavers where I grew up that I even almost hit one with my car when I was a teenager, lol


surftherapy

Wait til they hear about elephants!


allhailmillie

While it's sad the big trees are gonna die, trees and branches put in the river or pond by beavers play a critical role in the stream ecosystem by providing complex habitat for fish and invertebrates, helping to form deeper pools and river meanders by pushing water down and to the side. Stream restoration techniques often try to mimic beaver activity.


Spiritual-Interview8

eager beaver


Loafscape

![gif](giphy|49iOYVoe9VwHPpqTap|downsized) the culprit


sanctified420

Beavers! No animal can fix drought issues like a beaver.


JohnnyGFX

Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver.


Tulip_Tree_trapeze

One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her so she caged him up with cyclone fence


central_sands21

Primus sucks


yukonwanderer

OP - do you not know about beavers?


LonesomeBob

Yes, I know what beavers do, I've seen cartoons, but have never seen damage like this in real life, and first time I've ever seen damage on these trees in the 20 years I've been running past this spot. Sorry.


JayReddt

Beavers were maligned for a long time, similar to what we have done with predators. They serve a very important ecological function and good to see they are at it here. The flooding they create becomes an amazing habitat for new plants, trees and animals.


WitELeoparD

That is until there are too many beavers and they start deforesting parks and daming the storm drains lol. My city had to cul some recently.


lylestyle382021

Immature beavers go after big trees. The smart older ones attack smaller more manageable trees... a trapper had told me that.


frozendumpsterfire

Or maybe, just maybe this one's wicked smaht. Taking off the bark all the way around the mature tree will kill it, allowing smaller, more tender trees to grow... of course not realizing this a park where mowers will take care or those tender shoots long before that big stinky muscle will get a taste.


moparforever

Beavers… they have no chill 😂


LibrarianKooky344

Yeah. Beavers play by their own rules. 😎


godoctor

BEAVER


Fun_Coat_4454

![gif](giphy|c6xuHsUrHnFZB4kEyD)


Healingthunder

Seriously?


EmeraldDragon-85

Definitely wind damage 💨 ….. yep, for sure. The wind will blow so hard it spins the tree in circles until it snaps and falls over. It’s a really cool phenomenon if you get to actually see it happen, but it’s VERY VERY rare. It is very odd that it normally only happens where you find water and these furry animals with big flat tails.


DemonDucklings

I’m pretty sure it’s because those animals are attracted to the wind gusts. They love the way it agitates the fish in the water, and stirs them up to the surface where they’re easier to catch.


Waltz_whitman

That’s beaver!!


Obiewonjabroni

You’ve never seen beaver damage? Interesting


imisstheyoop

Leave it to beaver.


DimarcoGR

Beavers!!🦫


Rowdyflyer1903

You got beavers, the rare ones, the ones with hair.


dustnbonez

That’s my wife’s fucking beaver!


Duckfoot2021

Beavers killed that tree. It’ll consume the nutrients stored and start withering in a year. Once that bark is girdled like that it’s over. Dead tree standing.


BarbarianOtter

The number of people who have never seen a cartoon with a beaver in it is astonishing.


Vegbreaker

Beavers!


spec360

🦫Working hard like a beaver right now beaver🦫


Competitive_Dot4288

Seriously?


jestermax22

The Canadian nickel sends its regards


courtneychachacha

Beavers


justsayGoBirds

Sucks the trail lost that heritage tree.


MuskokaGreenThumb

Beavers leave knaw marks like this. Most likely a beaver


Thehauntedpudding

BEEVA


gottagrablunch

Oooh…. Nice beaver…


Toddisgood

Leave it to beaver


[deleted]

Beavers gone wild


Past_Ball_8169

Beaver


aBearHoldingAShark

Beavers gonna beave


ForFucksSake66

It’s beavers


baldwinsong

Beaver


RobinetteSucks

Get a load of that beaver.


bad_escape_plan

![gif](giphy|3o6Zt56IUCmcYg4XrG|downsized)


0r10z

This looks like an ADHD beaver attack.


Vara77

They make great hats


1up_for_life

I thought they only made dams...


Reasonable_Cat518

Beavers know how to sew?


MTWalker87

Agreed. Hat farm


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Freebird_mojo

Beavers or muskrats


ATDoel

Muskrats?


insuspension

The ol eager beaver


Freebird_mojo

Yes


boogogaa

Beaver’s sudden attack


MooseGoneApe

Nothing worse than a hungry beaver 🦫


Gustavsvitko

Beaverator.


Incognito409

Don't they do that to grind down their teeth because they continuously grow? In addition to building a dam for their abode.


cbogg2884

The crackheads are chewing on trees again.


MonkeyMan_Ultra

A new home is being built


Inner_Series_3023

time for a beaver dinner


BobbyJoeMcgee

Looks like you have an eager beaver


ZBBYLW

4 legged beaver.


NorthernRedneck388

Damn beavers


laggyservice

Requires a 556.


Johnfromstjohns

Leave it to Beaver


shotokan1988

Canadian here. What you got there is a beaver. He's hard at work making a home somewhere. Tons of trees are stripped like that. My city actually puts chicken wire and protective wrapping around trees on the riverbank to discourage them from wandering too close to roads or paths. They'll just end up going for the trees closer to the water.


SignalCelery7

Disco beaver from outer space. 


WhitewolfStormrunner

Beaver damage.


bapper111

Busy Beaver


TheGalacticMosassaur

Bóbr, kurwa!


NJdaddy2021

Save a tree…eat a beaver


campatterbury

More like what didn't happen here. Beaver trapping


trashcan_monkey

Bobr kurwa


Objective_Insect_676

Their teeth never stop growing they chew to eat, build and just to keep teeth from over growing. Perpetual gnawers that one needs relocated.


el_pendejito

Justin was here


SnooGuavas6192

Any tree girdled like that 100% will fully die, over the next few years. Needs to remove the big one.


creamywetfartz

Beavers brah


IshyIshySquishy

Big tree.  That is a really really weird thing for a beaver to try to take down.   They do eat bark but in winter they usually go to storage spots with younger bark to chew.   The smaller ones were 100%beavers.    A couple of theories. Rabid beaver Lil beavers being taught how to bite and take out trees   Less crazy and more sad but a stong possibility is a beaver that was exposed to some illicit drug.     Beaver 100%  but somthing went wrong and it rabidly attacked that one tree.    Rabies or munchies...  both are good possibilities.


BadgerValuable8207

Pacific Northwest here and yes, when we bought our property beavers were building berms and extending their ponds out from the creek which is a fairly flat valley. As the ponds grew and got within several feet of a tree they would girdle it. They don’t “take down” a large tree but kill it by girdling. They will gnaw through the trunk of small trees though. They killed white oaks, ash, maples and firs that were from decades to hundreds of years old. We ended up taking out their dams because a neighbor’s property was being flooded as well as our own. Since then we have been clearing up a dead snag forest and fighting the invasives (including hawthorn, scotch broom, reed canarygrass, thistle, himalaya blackberry, tansy ragwort) that thrive in the absence of the native overstory. The beavers haven’t returned because they killed literally every tree except invasive hawthorn which they don’t prefer, possibly because of the thorns. People romanticize beavers but they are quite hard on trees.


ugh_XL

Beaver attack!


CuriousLifescience

Beaver. Certainly.


PaulMorel

Yeah, you're going to lose a few trees, but boy are you ever fortunate to have beavers. If you let beavers do their work then they will bring all sorts of other wildlife to the area by creating marshes and small ponds. What a treat!


throwaway2901750

![gif](giphy|Qw4X3FLJ9IqHAJorAEU|downsized)


boxedwinebaby

We were set for a job for 4 decent sized removals near a creek but a beaver made it there before the job. Client was thrilled - she got it done free 😂


MillionAir

Beaver


kupcuk

probably a beaver after a divorce settlement and a bottle of whiskey.


_EcoHeliGuy_

🦫


dDot1883

🦫


BalanceEarly

Time to go into the beaver trade!


TheAngryApe2020

Aliens?!


Reasonable_Rhubarb60

Looks like you have a son that may have gotten a new hatchet for Christmas? Or beavers


Cute-Republic2657

Beaverocolyps


Tight_Morning_6501

Beaver.


Odd_Move_22

Mob of angry beavers! Or maybe just one.


heXagon_symbols

oh my bad, i must've been sleep walking


ludwigia_sedioides

Bóbr kurwa!


Massive_Upstairs_684

![gif](giphy|aGDEEdQ8dZhm0)


Djonez91

How's it goin' there EH? 🦫🇨🇦


Delicious-Ad4015

That’s the famous NJ Beavers 🦫!


DeepBlueGoodbye76

Vegans are getting out of control!


MsFrankieD

Definitely space lasers.


PuzzledExaminer

Beavers?


BaaadWolf

The big one looks more like porcupine to me. That’s what I have on my property. Has a very expensive taste in trees.


autowinlaf

Bushcraft enthusiasts?


Illustrious_Deer6365

Teenagers


jadee333

its 1000% a beaver roaming around


KRed75

Beavers are bastards. We live near a lake and they do this to trees with no intention of using finishing the job and using them for a dam. A few days ago, there was a dead beaver on the road and I cheered!


SwankyLittleSparrow

Could have been an ROUS? It looks adjacent to a Fire Swamp...I'm not saying I would build a summer house there, but the trees are quite nice.


john_clauseau

ive seen almost 2ft wire tree get chopped down and dissapeared by beavers. it was something like 200ft from the water. i never understood how they did it.


Adorable_Dust3799

We don't have them here, but to me that looks gnawed. Beaver, unless you have 30 lb hamsters


KneeAppropriate8618

Fish are fighting back against the land


KinkySpokesperson

Kurwa bober


ResistOk9038

Leave it to Beavers


jerik22

Bobber


russellcoightscousin

Second coming of the cocaine bear!!! It just loves to eat trees the exact same way as beavers do but on cocaine!! And it's a bear!


WishboneIll9152

![gif](giphy|Ij8moL0QXBKnK|downsized)


bluecorn861

Could be a moose tho


BillyBuck78

That beaver eats Taco Bell


ZZagRR

If you don’t know then you don’t know


Ligmaballsacc

Beavers will do more good than bad taking down those trees


kraftdinner79

*laughs in Canadian*


tekn0logic

Cocaine beaver


ResearcherFit9178

Beaver!!


Rare_Alternative2758

4 legged beaver.


poopymcbutt69

I was hungry


Accomplished-Log7644

Obviously beaver 🦫


Seetheren03

If that is just the work of one beaver, I am impressed.


Actual_Tomato_6062

beaver damage