Lee
Massachusetts
May 2014
Speaking about big, how big do beavers get? Beavers are the largest rodents in North America, growing up to 48 inches from snout to the tip of their flat tail and weighing in at sixty pounds. That’s about the size of your standard bear cub, or 30 pineapples.
Our current trip to the Bay State is full of wonders. Just by pulling over to the side of the road, we can enjoy the company of a big, fat, stupid-looking non-living flesh and teeth beaver. Concrete and paint, it’s a beaver, and it sits by the fence of the Beaver Self Storage company in Lee, Massachusetts.
There is, of course, a history behind this beaver, as there is of the storage sheds (also behind the beaver,) but I’m not going to get into either, the history or the storage sheds. I’ll just tell you that this gargantuan Castor canadensis has been here, in one form or another, since 1967.
We’re hikers. We’re here for the wildlife y’know.