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Show me your beaver dam

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SunCatcher

04/12/2011 09:06PM

After reading NinjaCoco's thread about best beaver dam practices, I thought, why not have everyone show pictures of beaver dams they have encountered?

Woodland Caribou between Leano Lake and Bunny Lake

Thanks, SunCatcher

"WWJD"

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Savage Voyageur

04/12/2011 09:20PM

Dang, I don't have any dam pictures. :)

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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nojobro

04/12/2011 09:31PM

I was going to make a comment, but then thought better of it.

Sorry, I don't have any dam pics, either.

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cowdoc

04/12/2011 09:53PM

"What could happen?"

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cowdoc

04/12/2011 09:55PM

"What could happen?"

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cowdoc

04/12/2011 09:59PM

"What could happen?"

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snakecharmer

04/12/2011 10:03PM

Kawishiwi River

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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04/12/2011 10:17PM

and into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul

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Canoe Dude

04/13/2011 12:36AM

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Jackfish

Moderator

04/13/2011 01:08AM

"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir

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bobbwca

04/13/2011 02:45AM

Beartrap River

Bob

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bapazian1

04/13/2011 05:59AM

Stuart River beaver dam:

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TomT

04/13/2011 06:20AM

I think the biggest one I ever encountered was on the Frost River a long time ago. But in 2007 I came upon this gem that came close.

Moosecamp River Dam

note - the video doesn't do it justice. It is a four footer.

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw

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TomT

04/13/2011 06:25AM

This was 2001 and I called it Side Creek. Stu liked it too. :)

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw

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gutmon

04/13/2011 06:29AM

between Vern and Juno

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Ho Ho

04/13/2011 07:09AM

Crab Creek, last July -

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wb4syth

04/13/2011 07:11AM

quote tg: " "

Nice rack on that beaver dam.

"I'm not superstitious. I'm a little stitious" - Michael Scott

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TuscaroraBorealis

04/13/2011 07:33AM

1.) Little Saganaga - Elton portage.

2.) Larch Creek

3.) North lake near LLC

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Newbster

04/13/2011 07:42AM

Those are some nice Beaver Dams !!

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Badgerboy

04/13/2011 08:05AM

My wife and son hopping over a dam on the Oyster River south of the Agnes portage

Take'm to the Wilderness, introduce them to the wonders of God's creation. They will be better for it.

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nojobro

04/13/2011 08:06AM

Damn! Check it out: Beaver dam in Alberta

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BearBrown

04/13/2011 10:11AM

There is a monsterous dam on the portage between juno and vern lakes south of brule. It is so big it flooded the portage so you actually have to paddle accross a big beaver pond in the middle of it. If I can find the pics, I'll share.

Richard "Bear" Brown

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jb in the wild

04/13/2011 10:35AM

My bushwhack last summer with my boys into Yodeler.

I have to say this is one big dam this thing is about a hundred yards wide.

JB

You can't explain the obvious to the ignorant.

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04/13/2011 10:38AM

wb4syth, Tom T et al-that video is of the same dam where I photographed those hunters with the nice rack (at one point was thought to be a new state record rack).

and into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul

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jwartman59

04/13/2011 10:53AM

this is the $%@^#& just below a beaver dam. if they didn't taste so good I would have to say that, at times, i don't care for beavers.

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wetcanoedog

04/13/2011 12:07PM

i was working my way up a creek in a back bay of LLC and was stopped cold by this whopper.

it's just a level trail thru the woods.

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airmorse

04/13/2011 12:15PM

South end of Iron lake.

Here we are standing on the same Dam.

"In wilderness is the salvation of mankind." Thoreau.

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Lightfoot

04/13/2011 12:50PM

Along the Moose River south of Nina-Moose Lake.

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Corsair

04/13/2011 01:14PM

Went over/ around at least 20 on the Frost River last year, but this is what impressed me most.

"Pack lightly, Tread lightly"

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butthead

04/13/2011 01:42PM

LIS into Pauness.

Stuart River.

butthead

"never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" George Carlin

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NinjaCoco

04/13/2011 01:45PM

I love this thread.

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mooseplums

04/13/2011 02:04PM

Oyster river

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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bassnut

04/13/2011 02:08PM

Sometimes...I...just have....no comment.....(I guess I get more trees!!)

"Blessed are the cracked because they let in light."

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Amok

04/13/2011 02:12PM

quote butthead: " LIS into Pauness.
... butthead"

edited for brevity

That dam wasn't there when I went ... was it a new edition last year? I know there's a HUGE dam along the portage to Shell.

Trust, but verify. The Lord will provide !!!!

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SevenofNine

04/13/2011 02:56PM

Heading north into Weird lake.

First one heading north from Jack

The guilty party

The best part of this journey here is further knowing yourself - Alan Kay

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boonie

04/13/2011 03:57PM

quote Canoe Dude: " "

That first picture looks like the one down off the corner of Fairy Lake - is it?

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bapabear

04/13/2011 04:33PM

On Cherokee Creek.

Beaver Dam

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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Jiimaan

04/13/2011 05:43PM

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bapabear

04/13/2011 06:15PM

Exactly!! Used to teach in that town.

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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The Lorax

04/13/2011 06:26PM

This one was neat. The whole time I was dam hopping, I had a family of Otters bobbing to my right about seven feet away just watching me.

I love the smell of silnylon in the morning. It smells like........victory!

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ducks

04/13/2011 08:31PM

Hog Creek

Ride EZ

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Ho Ho

04/13/2011 08:40PM

Here's another one, from our Quetico trip this summer, on the North Bay to Isabella route. This dam was easy to slide over - once we got to it. As you can see from the picture, it was mucky on the approach from below. But somehow we got up to the dam without sinking in the muck.

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DeterminedOrange

04/14/2011 12:16PM

I think maybe this beaver had a sense of humor to put a dam right before the portage. Make 'em get out of the boat one extra time.

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nojobro

04/14/2011 12:36PM

All these pictures only serve to make me want to go RIGHT NOW and find some dams.

Ahhhhh....when am I going?

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Boppa

04/14/2011 01:55PM

Korb River

"Yesterday is the past, Tomorrow is the future, Today is a GIFT, that is why it is called the present".

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boonie

04/14/2011 04:57PM

quote Boppa: "Korb River
"

I remember that one :).

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h20man

04/14/2011 05:09PM

Isabella River north of North Bay!

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Brent

04/14/2011 05:27PM

quote nojobro: "Damn! Check it out: Beaver dam in Alberta "

This is the most amazing thing ever. It makes me smile to think that there's a beaver working on this dam who says "my daddy worked on this dam and before that his daddy worked on this dam... and before that his daddy worked on this dam."

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Stumpy

04/15/2011 01:11AM

While planning a bushwhack, to the Southwest of Fauquier Lake in Quetico, I noticed this beaver dam (which it did indeed, turn out to be) to the west of this rounded pond & just before the no-name lake on the left side of photo. This was all from the Paddlers Campsite Database & satellite photos.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly

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Kanot