Beaver Wood Associates
Wetlands Maintenance
Arnold
J. Beaver II and family are specialists in low-tech methods of wetland
construction and maintenance. Their
expertise includes building dams entirely from local materials. At Beaver Wood Associates the Beaver family
lives in a lodge on the western end of Beaver Wood Pond so as to keep continual
vigilance over the pond and dam. The
Beavers also assist in tree farm management through selective improvement
cutting of trees on the pond’s shoreline. To learn more about beavers (Castor
canadensis), read about them at Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife,
enjoy Beavertails trivia, or read some of the books listed
below.
Some Books about Beavers
The
American Beaver: A Classic of Natural History and Ecology by Lewis H. Morgan (Dover
Publications, 1986. Originally printed
by J.B. Lippincott, 1868).
The
Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer by Dietland Muller-Schwarze and
Lixing Sun (Cornell University Press, 2003).
The
Beaver Family Book by
Sybille and Klaus Kalas (Picture Book Studio, 1987).
Beaver
Pond, Moose Pond by
Jim Arnosky (National Geographic
Society, 2000).
Beavers:
Water, Wildlife, and History
by Earl L. Hilfiker (Windswept Press, 1990).
Beavers:
Where Waters Run by
Paul I.V. Strong (NorthWord Press, 1997).
Beavers
(Worldlife Library Series)
by Leonard Lee Rue (Voyageur Press, 2002).
Beaversprite:
My Years Building an Animal Sanctuary
by Dorothy Richards with Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci. (Heart of the Lakes
Publishing, 1983).
In
Beaver World by Enos
A. Mills Pickering. (University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Originally published
by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913).
Sajo
and the Beaver People
by Grey Owl. (Macmillan of Canada, 1935. Reprinted 1996).
Tales
of an Empty Cabin by Grey Owl. (Macmillan of Canada, 1936.
Reprinted 1973).
Note: Some of these books are out of print but may
be found in libraries.
Beaver Wood Tree Farm
Beaver
Wood Tree Farm is a certified member of the American
Tree Farm System.
Mixed hardwood trees are grown for timber. The woodland is managed for
sustainable growth and wildlife habitat.
