More About Beavers

Beavers often have favorite areas which they carry sticks to and eat the bark. Often this is a log, or rock and there is usually a pile of sticks with the bark carefully chewed off which are commonly called beaver bones.	A beaver lodge looks like a large pile of sticks out in the middle of a pond. Older lodges  may have vegetation on them.  The entrance to the lodge is underwater and inside there is a mud floor, just above the water line.
As they leave the water to get to trees and shrubs, they sometimes make an obvious trail. Often they will cut branches from a fallen tree, then haul them into the water, making a broad trail.	The large incisers bite off large chips and a beaver can chew through a six inch log in just a few minutes. When they fall a tree, they first cut off all the branches, then they might eat the bark off the main trunk. This is an Alder, which is second in beavers preferences to Willow.