Episode Details

By the 1940s, government officials were looking to re-introduce the beaver to a region of Idaho to help improve the health of the area’s wetlands. But hauling live beavers through forests and over mountains was not easy - or cheap. And thus someone came up with the idea of parachuting beavers into these remote areas. This is the story of Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers - or parabeavers.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71613267/parachute-beavers/

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_drop_box_sprung_open_on_landing_Idaho_1950.png

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