Feral Beaver

One of the sketches done while on the road at the Hurstville Interpretive Center in Iowa. Deleting the log victim that was originally in the foreground makes for a much more intense image... the last thing a juicy piece of wood sees before getting ground to a pulp. Another amusing moment came while using the men's room, and seeing a flier taped up at eye-level above the urinal that contained a goofy quiz for kids on bird species (answer in link):

"What kind of a bird murdered Bambi?"

And file this under "Best Beaver Headline of the Year":

"Royal Zoological Society of Scotland 

denies 'concealing' beavers"

I found it infinitely amusing to discover the official newspaper for Acadia National Park is called... (wait for it...) "The Beaver Log." If that wasn't enough, in the Park's Visitor Center I checked out a copy of  “Beavers – A Wildlife Handbook” (Kim Long, 2000 Johnson Nature Series) which was a stellar source of new castor canadensis-related quotes.

I am the quick-eared beaver

That gnaws the trees of the forest,

‘Tis I who overthrow them”

- Beaver Song, traditional Pima