I enjoy reading news about wildlife making inroads into areas where they haven't been seen in years, or decades. Here is a story I heard on the CBC radio today about a beaver returning to the Detroit area.
Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.
The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant. Officials believe the beaver spotted by the utility's motion-sensitive camera marks the animal's return to the river for the first time in at least 75 years.
Beaver trapping in the late 1700s was instrumental in the founding of Detroit, but the animals were soon wiped out.
Full story here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29222122/
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