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  • Once They Were Hats

  • In Search of the Mighty Beaver
  • By: Frances Backhouse
  • Narrated by: Erin Moon
  • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Frances Backhouse
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Finalist for the 2015 Lane Anderson Award and the 2016 Butler Book Prize

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers - 60 million (or more) - and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived.

In Once They Were Hats, Frances Backhouse examines humanity's 15,000-year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver's even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers, Backhouse goes on a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they're returning.

©2015 Frances Backhouse (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
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  • Categories: History
Animals Ecosystems & Habitats Endangered Species Environment Nature & Ecology World Ecosystem Habitat Endangered Animal
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Covers everything beaver

I really enjoyed this. I found the back stories, paleo archaeolgy, cultural heritage and modern day tales fascinating.

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