Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Disgusting den of creepitude
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No, you smutheads, this isn't about pussy.

Where I work (University of Idaho) has a nice (polouted as hell) crick running right through campus. From time to time we get some beaver action going on. I'm suposed to report this shit to the heavies above me so the beaver can be.... well, for lack of a better word, executed. Something to do with tree health. Since I'm quiting in October (5 years on the job ...retirement thing) I decided not to report the beaver to the bosses. As it turns out, I kinda like my beaver. I busted up his dam one day just to see if he was really there, and he fixed the shit I fucked up. I felt sorta bad for the busy little rodent. After that, I marked a stick and planted it in his pond to check the progress. Two inches this week! Golly, what a dam builder! Since the beaver hasn't had his shit fucked up lately, I've had an influx of wildlife. Ducks, pheasant, even fish (ther're suposed to be extinct in this particular crick), but they're there! My beaver is cool and he contributes to the ecosystem.. May the dieties bless my beaver..... Just thought I'd share that with my asylum family....

Get some beaver today! (that is a pussy joke)

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
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By "crick" I assume you mean "creek."

Because man would that suck if a crick epidemic cut a swath through campus.

Millions of people calling in sick due to massive neck pain.

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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: kansas.
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you have to save that beaver.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
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I saw something recently about a guy who bought a nice bit of property with a stream and Beavers have built a dam and flooded the entire thing, including his house. Where he is he is prohibited from tampering with the Beavers, or their dam.

The guy still had to smile about the Beavers, even though they are ruining his property. The work they do is pretty amazing.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Disgusting den of creepitude
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Shit.... I forgot some people still speak the queen's english...

Yeah, Crick = Creek

Pinecrika = Pinecreecker

I type like I talk. Sorry about that.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I don't know why I am capitalizing beavers. I blame the wine.

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Originally posted by Pinecrika
Pinecrika = Pinecreecker

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
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By "creek" I assume youse be a city boy. Creeks are nice photogenic water paths often populated by good looking models in thousand dollar vests hawking fishing lures. Cricks are inhabited by drug addicted, low birth weight, uneducated, manual laborers who fish with explosives. Creeks are figments of the imagination of the liberal media; cricks are boots on the ground in the reality of the watershed.

'cricka, get some pictures of that dam and critter. It's pretty cool that the wildlife has blossomed with the beaver's work. It is also cool that you are in dereliction of groundskeeper's duties as you finish your tenure there. What you got lined up in the Valley?

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Registered: Sep 2000
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Pinecreeker? Who are you trying to impress?

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Originally posted by Nutrimentia
By "creek" I assume youse be a city boy. Creeks are nice photogenic water paths often populated by good looking models in thousand dollar vests hawking fishing lures. Cricks are inhabited by drug addicted, low birth weight, uneducated, manual laborers who fish with explosives. Creeks are figments of the imagination of the liberal media; cricks are boots on the ground in the reality of the watershed.

'cricka, get some pictures of that dam and critter. It's pretty cool that the wildlife has blossomed with the beaver's work. It is also cool that you are in dereliction of groundskeeper's duties as you finish your tenure there. What you got lined up in the Valley?

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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I always assumed that 'Pinecrika' meant 'pinecracker.'

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
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Originally posted by Pinecrika
I don't have shit lined up, just a house that's paid off. With two acres. Paid off. I think I'll build a hydroelectric dam. On Pinecrick. That harkens back to the tweek days, huh?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
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Originally posted by Nutrimentia
By "creek" I assume youse be a city boy. Creeks are nice photogenic water paths often populated by good looking models in thousand dollar vests hawking fishing lures. Cricks are inhabited by drug addicted, low birth weight, uneducated, manual laborers who fish with explosives. Creeks are figments of the imagination of the liberal media; cricks are boots on the ground in the reality of the watershed.

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The eagle has landed.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
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Nah, that was a crick just pretending to be a creek so as not to offend you. They are pretty wily sometimes. The best cricks are those that revel in their glory without flinching. Pine Crick be one of these.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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The sioux.. or somebody else, I forget who, have a whole belief about creation involving the beaver and about how before him, theres just a river, and after him theres a pond, where insects come and then the fish come and the birds come and blah blah and it's an awesome story that now has more relevance than ever, whoo! Take pictures of your.. beaver. :S

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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Beavers really make you wonder about the evolution of instinct. Some day, Beavers were able to build dams and use them to protect the family. But did they practice in small streams first, or what? Were there dam-building dinosaurs? Basically beavers open up a hole can of questions.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Beavers make me wonder why the big guy upstairs has forsaken us

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Ducktown, GA
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You should never mention out loud to anyone that you have beavers messing stuff up. Cause then (I saw the same show) they want to protect them while the beavers mess up your stuff. You should just dissapear the beavers.

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Registered: Oct 2001
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I don't have a beaver

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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Beavers are frost-proof, too.

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Registered: Oct 2001
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more of the milk of human kindness

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Beavers were extinct in Ohio for a long time. It was a really big deal a few years ago when some finally moved back into a local park I used to go to. I believe they're protected in Ohio still.

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By 1830, the beaver was extirpated from Ohio.

Before Europeans arrived, there was an estimated 400 million beavers. By 1890, there were only isolated pockets in the Midwest.

20th Century
It was over 100 years before evidence of beaver in Ohio was seen again. The first was in Ashtabula County in 1936. After a beaver dam caused flooding in 1946 in Columbiana County, a study revealed that there were approximately 100 beaver in eleven Ohio counties. By the early 1970s, populations had increased to over 5,000 beaver in thirty-seven counties. Just a few years later, an estimated 7,500 beaver could be found in forty Ohio counties, especially in eastern and southeastern areas of the state. Since 1961 there has been limited beaver trapping allowed in Ohio.

In 1984, there were roughly 2 million beaver in the United States.

The 1997-98 Beaver Helicopter Survey by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources reported the recovered beaver population in Ohio to be 25,000, an increase of 35% from the previous year.

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