Argyll’s home making Knapdale beavers
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The beavers reintroduced to Scotland after 400 years through a colony of 3 families established at lochs in Knapdale in Argyll, have shown evidence of making home here.
They have now built a lodge. It’s around 23′ wide, 17′ long and 6.6′at its highest point. Experts think it has 2 internal cbambers, each accessed by an underwater passage.
Until now the beaver families have been living in tunnels in the banks of the lochs and their lodge building is seen as a clear sign ghat they now see themselves as permanent residents.
The development has been welcomed with delight by Simon Jones of the Scottish Beaver Trial Project.
In order not to disturb the mammals, members of the public are asked to stay away from the area – which has no walking trails leading to it or nearby.
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
There is a well established waymarked forest walk which was re-designated “The Beaver Detective Trail’ within yards of the beaver dam and the beaver lodge but it is now impassable due to the damming and flooding activities of the beavers. The beavers have been released in an area which is popular with locals and visitors alike and one of their remits was to increase tourism to the area. Now we are being told we mustn’t go anywhere near them! Well sorry folks, if you want to see how beavers cope with living in a working forest where people have been encouraged to visit, the beavers will have to cope with humans being in the vicinity.