Beaver Dam Collapse
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2015
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This video documents a dam collapse on our property in Northern Minnesota. The beavers have been building on this dam, adding one and a half feet in height per year for the last 7 years. Needless to say, they reached the limit of 9 feet and it spontaneously collapsed draining the whole pond in about 4 hours. Thankfully no one was near the spillway when it blew. 
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Beaver interviewed on Beaver T.V: “Well, this is a set back, we have a lot of memories here, but we’re gonna rebuild for sure”
"Our fish friends have relocated further south..."
"And the cod are gonna pay for it."
And, we have brought in a new engineering team.
300 beavers disliked this vedio.
Where is FEMA when they're needed? Too busy building detention camps, I suspect.
The beavers were unharmed and rebuilt the dam to 4 feet high within 6 weeks.
Is the pond coming back
Snowflake beavers! 😂
Kayle M I would assume it’s gonna be back if it was there before and a new dam was built.
I was just about to ask this
They often rebuild at existing location. The also know how to patch leaks and breaches like this dam.
Can you imagine being a fish in that lake? “Well Tina looks like we’re moving again”
😂😂😂😂😂
no....Tuna
Women and blacks affected most.
@@im1who84u ...Beaver Lives Matter!!
Wanda. Her name is Wanda
Heavy rain two weeks prior to the collapse. We did not touch the dam. This pond is treasured by every one in our group plus it washed our our bridge over the creek. We had to build a new bridge.
If a bridge was the only major loss I'd say you were "dammed" lucky!
I’m originally from Orr, MN; have relatives with property on Vermillion. Are you on the Cook end, or the Tower end? Beautiful spot you have! 😊
Did you guys rebuild the bridge in 6 weeks like those beaver rebuild the dam? 😁
I'm just curious if they started rebuding the dam??
@@james94582 that's what beavers do. I'm sure they had it rebuilt in no time.
To My Viewers:We own the property that this dam is built on and were totally heartbroken when this dam gave way. The beauty of this natural setting is why we bought the property in the first place. We had no part in the destruction of this dam. It merely could not take the pressure of two week of heavy rain draining into beaver pond flood plain. Also, the beavers built it too high, 9 Ft. It was an engineering marvel. Double decker beaver dams are not that common.
+Rick Smith this is just amazing, I had no idea a Beaver, and his chums could engineer a structure of such size and strength. we have nothing like that here in the UK. This really is an impressive thing. glad to see no damage to persons and property.
+DAVID Marshall I thought this was the beaver bog that's between leveaux mountain and temperance river.
So hard to watch. Truly heartbreaking.
what was so heartbreaking..
just gonna take a guess and say it was the natural marvel of a pond vanishing in just hours..?
Update:
DAM REBUILT
6 weeks after this Collapse the Beavers rebuilt the dam to 4 ft high. The pond is now two thirds full and their house entrance should be accessible for the winter. By next summer I expect it to be totally rebuilt.
+Rick Smith very cool!
+Rick Smith how about an update movie?
+Rick Smith
You should build a flood channel or a beaver dam leveler. The leveler is the easiest and less impactful to the Beavers. Just put a pipe in at the highest water level you want in the pound and then put a chicken wire cage around it and then build the pipe out to the other side of the dam. That way, if there is another strong storm, the pond won't overflow and break the damn.
+bigbuilder10 Thanks for the idea, we are looking into doing that.
Minnesota - “Land of 9,999 Lakes.”
There are over 17,000 in MN...
True
@@cliff3233 laughs at your lake count in Alaska. Over 3 million unnamed lakes.
9,998 now.
@@Sackmatters *laughs in snow and benis noises*
anyone else get stuck watching videos of collapsing dams again at 5 pm in the afternoon on a weekend?
I wouldn't say stuck, I choose to watch it.
4:24 pm on Sunday
10:02 pm Sunday
1146 pm on a Thursday
How about 1am on Sunday night lol
The dam was 7 years old when it collapsed. It has had a history of collapsing every 7 years or so.
So that's why the whole town was there. It was just coincidence everyone showed up.
A lot of marriages like that...
Hmmm I wonder if the beavers do that on purpose.
Did the beavers break a mirror or something?
If the beavers haven't built up another dam to fill the area, could you get some footage of what the area looks like today doing a lot fo the same shots/views in the video? It would be interesting to see.
i dread when beavers discover concrete.
spacecadet28 the first ever beaver condominium. it's only 3 feet high, but screw you, it's for beavers.
3 feet high and affects an area of 1000 square miles.
Beavers don't fuck around
spacecadet28 That may be the funniest comment that I've ever read on RUclips!
Next to humans, beavers cause more environmental change/damage than any other critter.
They create biodiversity and habitats for hundreds, if not thousands, of other animals.
Sorry your shitty cows need to destroy some more land.
I use to trap beaver , that is until i was mercilessly attacked by a cougar, haven't been back to the bar since.
🤣🤣😂🤣
🍻🤪😂😂👍🤣🤣🤣
Badum-dum-swish!
Hahahaha!
Where was that bar btw?
Beaver commenting on the breach: "Damn that damn dam!"
Mother beaver to sons: I leave you boys alone for 5 MINUTES and this is what I come home to!
You only had one job!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Lol!!!
Yes the dam was rebuilt by the Beavers to 4 ft.
Where do you buy property like this :(
LOL I was wondering the same just now.
question is: how do you get the water back in?
rain?
JamesAnderyourstruly A water hose...duh.
When even the guy with white hair and plaid is recording on his phone, you know the situation is unique
*THANK YOU for your explanations!* I'm sure I wasn't the only person to question the cause of the collapse, but your video showing JUST HOW HIGH they'd built that dam explained it all - poor planning, beavers! SO GLAD they promptly rebuilt their home. Great video. 👍🤗
Not a catastrophe. Nature. That is how meadows are born, as silt sediments are deposited over a large area. Then the water goes away and meadow grasses thrive in the fertile silty soil.
You seem pretty excited about fertile silty soil
@@evanedwards5473 you seem like an idiot :0, just saying...thats what an idiot would say
@@ferce889 why are you trolling in a beaver damn collapse video comment section
@@evanedwards5473 why aren't more people trolling in a beaver dam collapse video?
What's with weird angry comments. He is right
land of 9,999 lakes now
Bwahahaha
Truly amazing that a beaver dam could successfully hold back THAT MUCH WATER!! Wow! D
Years ago, in Algonquin Park, a dam like that one broke and washed out the main highway through the park.
Thanks for sharing this video. There's a beaver pond behind our property and today I noticed their dam failed and three of their lodges are now high and dry. I'm glad to know they will rebuild, as they're fascinating to watch and a lot of wildlife enjoy this pond.
I wonder if the beavers ran 10 years worth of Environmental impact studies.
Nathan Zaremskiy just the liberal beavers ran the studies.
This is nothing compared to the effects of working or malfunctioning man made dams, or other human environmental impacts.
Nathan Zaremskiy or obtained a permit to build on wetlands.
Brian McGranahan
Or a permit to create a wetlands...
Beavers _are_ the environment.
These beavers should be held accountable! Typical wild animals not being held to any engineering standards. Thank God there was no loss of life but we cannot allow beavers to continue to build shoddy projects using substandard materials and no safety regulations!
ayo I was thinking the same thing, look at the mess they caused
Somebody call OSHA fast....
ayo
3 beavers died in this disaster. 2 where just babys
You're joking but the EPA suing a private landowner over the shoddy, non-permitted, and non-inspected construction of a beaver dam is not unheard of.
Not to mention the nonunion workers.
Before we all get teary eyed over the beaver, may I remind you - they've never bought a round at the bar once. It's always, " Well I gotta get up early in the morning and naw down some trees. " but they never pick up the tab on their way out.
bastards!
Yep, just slap something with their tail, flash a big, toothy rodent smile, and off they go to flood another parking lot...
Never trusted them... too eager.
As a waterfowl hunter I have witnessed firsthand their amazing skills. On the land I used to hunt they would help me some years by flooding new areas and creating better habitat for the ducks. Some years not so much, but either way I just let them do their thing and never bothered them. Sometimes I would be walking into the swamp early in the morning before day light and they would swim close to me and slap their tail on the water. That will surely wake you up.
Did the beaver in charge of this project get fired?
no, they got sacked
Bleargh Bleorgh those beaver guys pay through the teeth
No, he just got swept away
It was a Chinese Beaver!
They will fix it.
Beaver: Oh well, back to square one...
+StormTiberius In just 6 weeks the Beavers have rebuilt the dams first wall to 4 ft high
+Rick Smith When it cut from drone to the Dam open I just thought you had done it yourself. But if you are letting them rebuilt it good for you. It was an amazing bit of engineering by the beavers but I'm sure beaver Dams can hold back water needed elsewhere.
+Rick Smith Don't let it get any higher than that !! They don't need anymore. Many years ago had a working dude ranch in Wy. A beaver dam about 20 miles up the valley let go (later measured at 9 feet) and as it traveled down stream it took out the next one then the next one and on and on till it took out, and gathered the water, from 14 !!! Two hands were working in the barn and saw (and heard) it coming. They opened the corral gate and turned out 40 horses to fend for them self's then got up into the loft. We lost about $8,000.00 in winter feed, 8 good saddles and unknown how much tack. Had 3 feet of mud in the barn to shovel out and over a week to round up the horses that had headed for the hills.
Grant Tabor ppl are to dence as long as it looks pretty let em build.
Give those hands a bonus. They saved your hide.
They just released Beavers back into part of the UK after 400 years, hoping to be successful reintroduction across the whole of the UK eventually.
Where in the UK?
That sh*t NEVER works. I see the long history of Yellowstone Park is STILL being ignored through-out the world.
@@dezznutz3743 According to an article on CNN this very day, they're already a big success.
You mean Yellowstone when they reintroduced the wolves and it literally saved the park.
That one?
@@peterembranch5797 illegal ones in Scotland and there’s a legal reintroduction also in scotland aswell as one in England.
I find it hilarious that beavers see running water and immediately think "well someones gotta put a stop to this bullshit"
Damn.
dam right!... oh no sorry the dam wasnt upright anymore.
oh hi appsro nice seeing you here.
Fuck man, I need some more doraleous and associates WHERE IS IT JHONNY
I second that notion. more doralingus plz
contribute
I'd love to see a time-lapse of the beavers building that dam up again
Chances are they have already depleted the food source in that area and will move on to another area.
@@robertlivingston1634 there seemed to be a lot of trees in the area still....
@@1990cwa81625 they don't eat just any old tree, they prefer Aspen, young maple and a handful of others.
@Tom Jenkins Read the posts from the owners. It was not destroyed on purpose. The collapse came after heavy rainfall and the property owners realized that the rains would cause the dam to fail.
I've seen beaver rebuild in a matter of days, but it wasn't as big as that dam either. Little bastards could probably get it together in 1 1/2 - 3 weeks though I'd bet, depending on amount of saplings are still close by and how many beavers. I would've destroyed that dam well before it got 9 ft tall. Wtf, are those people doing, trying to drown somebody downstream?
Interesting video and thanks for not putting an intrusive soundtrack over it.
...great video, glad to hear they were back at a rebuild in no time...
No we love this land and the beaver pond. It truly was a spontaneous breach. The dam was not touched by human hands.
What river is this? If it drains into Superior, did the Superior trail bridge get knocked out, or hwy 61? Did it have anything to do with when Duluth got flooded out few years ago?
This was two years ago. I’m sure the beavers repaired it already. It’s great for ecology of the area
Beaver are cool animals. All animals that build are pretty interesting. Ants, termites, bees, etc. Some birds have pretty interesting nesting techniques.
then why the edit?
you sound like a politician ?. what machine digger , did you use ?.
Pretty amazing when you think about it. A little furball's structure holding back all that water in the first place.
Beavers are the only mammals other than humans who actually manipulate their environment to suit their needs
Not so little fireballs- 80lb with giant front teeth. The original tree skidder.
@@omgitsjoetime bears and wolves make dens. Ants make hills. Almost all animals make trails. Whered you read that info? Curious.
@@peadookie Building a dam for the purpose of flooding an area to build your house is a little different than digging a hole to live in.
@@omgitsjoetime yeah and like humans they destroy the ols echo system to create the new one and since all beaver dams are not eternal when they give way they destroy another downstream . Ever seen what happens to a fair pârt of the forest when one is built on a huge lake and decides to give way ? I did , Nothing stand in the way of the torrent . Beavers are like humans when it comes to their dams and when they fail the destruction can be huge
Beavers are incredible animals. One of the only mammals capable of totally reconstructing local ecosystems/landscapes. Historically they played a vital role in building the worlds that people and other animals inhabited. I'm glad they're being brought back to the places where they've been extirpated.
My step father is a retired forest ranger in the Adirondack Park here in New York. He was always having to tear down beaver dams before they got too big and washed out roads etc. when they collapse like this one did. I introduced him to a RUclips video of a forest ranger in Canada that solved this problem without all of the work entailed in manually destroying the dam. He was even more impressed by this simple and ingenious idea than I was, considering how much work it is to tear down a dam and how long it takes.
What he had done was, after tearing the dam down, he would place a large diameter drainage pipe with a valve on it on top of the area where the beaver would build their dam. The beavers built their dam right on top of the drainage pipe without any issues at all. When their dam got too backed up, he would go out and open the valve, releasing the water pressure and protecting the dam. It was a lot less work, and helped to protect the beauty of the area as well as roads and other infrastructure. He could release the pressure on dams about 10 a day, instead of taking a couple days per dam to tear them down. Everyone wins. After this dam burst, as long as the beaver are still in the area would be a perfect time to incorporate this type of pressure release system.
You could at the same time incorporate a pipe to take water down to a water generator for backup power. It would incorporate into the dam the same way. This could give a decent amount of head and pressure to run a 1500 watt generator like this one.
www.powerspout.com/
Two beaver dams down stream also washed out
Good thing CNN did't interview the beavers , It would of been all Trumps fault . 'HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Women and blacks affected most.
Film at eleven.
Unprecedented racism
Reporter: "Mr. Beaver, what exactly happened here today?"
Mr. Beaver: "Damn...."
Women and blacks affected most.
River: „I gotta rush...!“
Beaver: „Dam!“
“It’s always one damn thing or another!”
a lot of beavers were fired that day
Perhaps
No they were in the Union.
Unreal having free labor build a lake on your property. And not only build a lake but also engineering skill that ensures maximum water surface over land survey and water sources to fill it, and damn life made from sticks! And having a 2 stage flood gate control fall. Brillant animals.
didn't cost the tax payers a cent
Very well designed creatures.
@@elijahsellers3727
That's the key word, "designed".
A lot of wisdom and intelligence. That can't be denied by anyone.
Having a smaller, secondary back-up dam is Mother Nature at her best - allowing for controlled flooding and no disaster. Leave it to beaver to save the day.
Yep, and I bet they were out there that very night to start repairs on the main dam. You can knock down their dams, but they will rebuild.
„Trust me, I‘m an engineer!“ - Beaver
I think we'll put this stick right here!
In 1998 the Highway department blew a dam in Northern Alberta they didn’t know that several dams and multiple lodges had combined. After it blew we got a call that we had 15 minutes to get across the highway 10 minutes after crossing the flooded highway 2 miles of highway swept away they investigated the incident.. the dam was 18’ high where they blew it.. and it was 6 miles long and 2 miles wide
was there a name or it that can be looked up? it might be visible from google satelite if it's near any kind of road or farms. amazing that rodents smaller than a dog could make a structure that size and maintain it.
Typical bureaucratic idiocy, eh? 🤪
RUclips's hidden gems never fail to amaze me. Great vid with awesome footage. Thanks for sharing and the followup info.
I had forgotten that beavers were the dam builders in the first place. The fact that such little animals are capable of such an incredible project astounds me.
If the beavers were like humans they would immediately start filing lawsuits, demanding government assistance and declaring themselves victims.
Spot on sir!
My goodness! All that hard work I’d love to see an update video
We did not see any beavers or fish during the breach. The beavers do their work at night.
I tested that theory by opening a small outlet in a beaver dam. Hiked back out three hours later (by now it's noon) and the dam is fixed.
There's a documentary that illustrated beavers would build dams in areas of rushing water sounds. The environmentalist placed pipes at overflow locations to prevent too much water ever developing, and played music that sounded like rushing water, when they returned, the beavers had built dams that helped anchor the pipes exactly where the environmentalists had recommended with the music.
What no one told us is that the Land of 10,000 Lakes is really the Land of 10,000 Beaver 🦫 Lakes!
The scale of this is so colossal.
Near a cottage I used to visit, there were a series of beaver dams totally about 30-40ft in height combined. However, they were only about 20 feet across but the first one alone was at least 9ft tall. This one is a lot wider wider, super impressive. That was a cool event you were able to witness.
"were able to witness" yeah probably broke it so he could film the outcome.
notice how it cuts from sky view to the already broken dam.
Sam-pson Smith You expect they have footage of the dam breaking?
Read the uploaders comment. He was heartbroken when the dam broke, which is understandable considering a beautiful lake was reduced to mud.
first of all, it was mainly sarcasm speaking.
although i wouldn't say it is impossible. things like that happen all the time.
(of course he would say he is heart broken, what else would he say? "i broke the dam for views and money!" ? )
Sam-pson Smith Convenient.
@@sam-psonsmith9951 "it was mainly sarcasm speaking"
Look at dude walkin it back.
If the beavers could talk, know what they would say? Damn!
elvis316 damn it*
They should have been more eager!
Oh well.. back to the drawing board..
unothgor Knawing bored!
(I think that's the right spelling)
they'd definitely say "spoot".
Beavers: Last night some crazy shit happened!
Beaver sees river
Beaver: to hell with you
That's what happens when beaver chief engineer went to community college.
this is what happens when whites hire undocumented workers
elitism is real
Ron T. U r 2 funney
Or Liberty college.
He wasn't good at logarithm.
Two beavers talking.
"Hey Bob, did you put that log on the right side?"
"Uh, Now Jim, is that my right side or your right side?"....
It's more than 3 years later, a short follow up were fantastic.
That’s what happens when the beavers don’t get their work permitted and inspected.
I have a horse pasture in Colorado, and unlike you I am trying to keep it a pasture and not a lake! I have to get rid of the dams. The problem we both have in common is that there is no negotiating with beavers! You cannot tell them that two feet or 5 feet is okay, but nothing higher. Their instincts tell them to build, build, and build!
The drone footage is spectacular!
Dinomite works well.
EZ05 or see4, cnc, if nothing helps go nucular.
Kill the beavers
The Beaver are VERY good at what they do. In this case , they made a mistake. Done that a few times myself. They will learn from it. Hydraulic engineers look at those critters in utter amazement. The Beaver understand water management better than any mammal on this planet. Including us.
Uhhhh no.
Beavers don't understand water management when it comes to the impacts of the environment around them. They just build dams for their own living spaces, nothing more.
OldeFreedom the ponds they make also help ensure a local supply of the plants they eat, even during a dry spell when the area would otherwise have died or gone dormant.
They build it so they can trap more food in an area or to be closer to food sources. When you gorge an area with water, fish populations tend to increase too, sustaining their food chain.
I always thought dams created food for the beavers along with shelter. Maybe others don't see that.
lol it must feel good to humble humans by exaggerating and enthusing fancifully over the grandiosity of _nature_ , huh?
This is why you don’t build a town under a giant beaver dam
That is beautiful country. Thanks for sharing. Very interesting video, and a fortunate natural moment to catch on film. Would have been really interesting to scan around the previous pond/lake/river bed after it drained off!
depending on location, i actually like what the beavers do for natural habitats. they can be extremely helpful to an ecosystem.
We need to ban assault beavers.
These are simply beavers of war.
AR-14 fully semi-auto bump stock assault beaver with a 30 magazine clip of full wooden jacket child penetrating ammunition complete with castoreum tracers. These beavers are MEANT to kill children, they're DESIGNED to turn creeks into lakes, and they're THE ROOT of every issue be it related to beaver presence or not. What? Poor education? Mental health? Shitty healthcare system? Animals just doing what's in their nature? NO, It's the assault beaver's fault!
Ban assault beavers, they are rodents of war!
Call or text 888-888-PardonKyleMyersAndFuckingLegalizeMarijuanaAlready if you too support the ban of beavers.
Ha ha ha LMAO.
Wow, amazing how well built that it could retain so much water!
Beaver be like: "Where's my damn Dam".
Don't feel too bad it broke and drained ... Its VERY good in the long term ... and that's how it's supposed to work ... the downstream area just picked up literally TONS of nutrients, top soil, and new seeds, sod, grasses, and aquatic life.
Its great (ike fantastic!) you can keep the dam intact on your land (I mean that it's not flooding valuable farm land, etc) ... great job ... I grew up near beaver dams as a kid and they are a bountiful natural ecosystem of plants and wildlife!! :)
you forgot "a lot of beaver shit"
this was so much fun to read.. didn't know we had so many funny people... thanks for the laugh I needed it
Colorado native here. Beaver dams always make for a beautiful mountain setting. They're quite the little engineers.
We don't have beavers in my country, and it still amazes me that there are animals with the ability to build such a dam!
leave it to beaver
Gee, why'd you have to go and do that beave?
justin bieber
blitzv10 b
Justin Bieber has a beaver.
The beaver likes it hard.
Hugh Hefner had a lot of beavers on his property in the 70s and 80s, but landscaping cleared all that up. Hey-oh!
Kinda surprised RUclips didn't muffle this comment. Must be that they didn't catch it. So many comments, it was lost in the bush
Its the edging that takes time and a steady hand👀
They hung around in the grotto too!
😂👍😂👍😂👍
You mean Manscaping.😁
Well so much for the damn tour.
That was really neat to see, You could tell it was about to breech the edge it was really full of water.
That was really cool and thanks for sharing this video.
This is your property? Wow. I am determined to make lots of money so I can get a place like this someday!
With lots of beavers.
Don't allow beaver to distract you from your wealth accumulation plans.
Canada has quite affordable patches of land.
Fuck beavers, get money.
BaileysBeads this would require living in Canada.
this is amazing ! i never knew beavers could create lakes this big
I've seen quite a few beaver dams and this one is massive
I could hear Beavers cussing in the background.
Update 2017: The beavers have created a new artificial lake.
Rick Smith, I would love to see how the beaver dams look now.
they have rebuilt to 5 foot this summer
If you click on my name in the video header it will take you to my spring Haley hooDoo spring fly over update video
Thanks for watching. Rick
Here is the link
ruclips.net/video/ubk9vXVJ1q4/видео.html
I wrote a fictional novel about the trying life of a wolf named King. His encounter with a beaver was in a setting that I'd pictured exactly like this. I'll take this as a sign to move forward with finally getting it published. Thanks for the video!
Beavers were probably thinking "What ...in...the...hell!"
Dang, I knew beaver dams could get big but I never pictured one getting up to 9ft tall. I'm impressed that it was able to last at all at that height given all that water weight behind it. Impressive even despite the inevitable failure.
Beavers are Gods engineers, They will re-build the damns!
Me at 1am: I should go sleep.
RUclips: wanna see a video about beaver dams?
Me: I see this as an absolute win
Amazing critters.
Thanks for the video.
We got beavers cutting trees down out on our property. They have made a hellva mess around a pond.
Great footage of an amazing event, well done!
Its more sad than amazing.
It'll all be fine. They'll rebuild it, everything downstream will enjoy the flood of nutrients, and everything damaged below will grow back. It's just part of nature.
The beaver: "I'm never gonna financially recover from this"
Beaver: "Dam it!"
The beavers obviously turned the damaged dam over to home owners insurance. Thats must be why the repair happened so soon. Makes total sense
Oh wow , it was so beautiful ! Glad to hear that the beavers have made a new dam and that the water is filling well .
wow, incredible before and after video...Quite the pond they made..Glad to read its back 3/4 full..
Damn! Minnesota looks excactly like Finland. No wonder why most of the Finns who went to States moved to Minnesota. I would love to visit Minnesota some day😊 I might also find dome relatives there, who knows.
King Of Finland , the Finland is much warmer in winter :) greetings from Pietari :)
@@ricthompson5776 Rousseau county was't COLD enough, so my swede and norwegian grandparents homesteaded just north into Canada around the Rainy River District. -45 is nothing. my job at age four? stacking firewood!! LOTS of firewood.
if only trump could drain the swamp that fast😂😂
Here Here!!!!
1990cwa81625 it’s definitely ‘hear! hear!’
Leeches has an amazing ability to hold on to things no matter how hard you try To drain the swamp
🤔🤔
Trump and his family are the swamp
How's the dam now? Also, how many beavers are living in your property?
Beautiful footage.
wow the work they put into the dam...