Book Review: 'Beaverland,' by Leila Philip - The New York Times - 0 views
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That beaver was simply doing what beavers do: altering their surroundings to create a more hospitable place for themselves.
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beavers share something rare with humans. We build; they build. We change the landscape; they change the landscape. “Beavers,” she writes, “are the only animals apart from man that radically transform their environment.”
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Indigenous people may have hunted beavers for their meat and their fur, but they maintained taboos against overhunting, and some tribes, like the Blackfeet, considered them sacred animals that must never be harmed.
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