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and kits, yet they can peacefully coexist in a lodge with underwater access for four months or more.
Because they breed once a year beaver rarely overpopulate. They require large streamside habitats, and two-year-olds leave home each spring to find their own territories. Beavers today are found throughout the entire North American continent.
Here in Virginia, it is believed beavers are present in every county.
Given their large size and the k limited amount of time they spend away from the protection of water, adult beavers have relatively few natural predators. However, black bears, coyotes, dogs, bobcats, and ■perhaps great horned owls may prey upon kits and yearlings. Bear, typlves, dogs and coyote can also talre $dults. 1 Because of the low natural mortality and an abundance of suitable liAbitat. Virginia’s resident beaver population currently is expanding, but the exact statewide population has not been estimated.
Enjoy the outdoors!
Jim Byuaters, Rappahannock News Nature Writer, writes a weekly ^column. He welcomes, reader mail, responses, suggestions via e-mail at birdwatcher_528@yahoo.com or mail at PO. Box 8, Flint Hill, Va. 22627. 4 . >
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