The Lincoln Park Beaver, and the Reason for this Blog

Hi everybody! I'm starting this blog in order to inform everyone that a Beaver has made it's home in the middle of Chicago! "What? That's crazy, you must be talking about a rat or something, they get that big in Chicago." No really! There's a real-life Beaver that has made a home in the North Pond in Lincoln Park! It has built a lodge made out of branches and fur, and it goes about the pond doing Beaverly things like eat wood, and move bits of wood about and cut down a few trees here and there. It showed up all by itself likely following the banks of Lake Michigan until it found the North Pond, an inner city wildlife sanctuary in Lincoln Park. Lots of animals are in the park because it has been painstakingly restored to a state of native vegetation by the North Pond Conservation Council (http://www.northpond.org/northpond/index.html). This vegetative state (not like when you watch TV) is home to turtles, fish, squirrels and chipmunks, 150+ species of birds, many insects, and of course, a Beaver! This blog is devoted to the cause of letting the Beaver stay in its adopted home, because Chicago is big enough and wealthy enough to spare a few bits of wood and put up a few wire mesh guards to let this indigenous furry rodent with a flat tail and orange teeth be itself. I hope you feel the same way I do! Stay posted for more updates about the Lincoln Park Beaver.

The Lincoln Park Beaver