portage dog wrote on Jan 19^th, 2025 at 10:05am:

Looking at today's pic of beaver downed pine reminds me of all of the pines, cedar, spruce, name-your-evergreen that over the years, I've seen gnawed on by the industrious rodent engineers and said WTF?  Is it a blind beaver, did he lose his sense of smell/taste from COVID?  Did he lose a bet, was it a double dog dare?  Was he trying to use it as a push tree to get the aspen next to it on the ground?  Does anyone know, honestly, why a beaver would chew up a pine?  I'm curious if there's any reasonable explanation.  There's enough knowledge and experience in the QJ crowd that someone should know.  And I'm anticipating being entertained by Jimbo's reply. pd

My opinion, PD, is that this is old growth forest and not a stick of poplar or willow for the beaver to chew on.   He’s out of place and needs a forest fire or maybe he can dam an area for something to create new growth.