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Image by origamidon
Peaks Island, Maine USA • Beavers' • progress • update: Here in the Peaks Island Land Preserve, the beavers are rapidly transforming this isolated ecosystem. Ponds are multiplying and expanding; water levels are up a foot in some areas, since my last visit. • Beavers: Nature's Landscape Architects.

☞ FunFacts: Beavers eat the bark and spit the chips. –•– "They are the largest rodents (gnawing animals) in the world except for the capybara of South America. Unlike most other kinds of mammals, beavers keep growing throughout their lives. Most beavers look larger than they really are because of their humped backs and thick fur. Thousands of years ago, some beavers of North America were about 7 1/2 feet (2.3 meters) long, including the tail--almost as long as the grizzly bears. No one knows why these huge beavers disappeared." – from WorldBook's excellent summary.

And get this: an average beaver can cut down as many as 200 trees a year !

Twin Towers, World Trade Center

Image by raphael.gerber
New York City, USA.
July 1997.
This photo also has been published in the "World Trade Center Photo Gallery" on manhattan.about.com/od/september11th2001/ig/World-Trade-C....