Parachuting beavers

[winjim]

I'm not really sure where to start with this one. Somebody best fetch @Fnaar

US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years (it's OK, they survived)

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[Crackle]

Beaver parachutes, beaver parachutes..........there's a joke on the tip of my tongue but I just can't think of it.....

 

[Alex H]

"In the 1940s the department was trying to deal with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions when wildlife managers settled on a novel idea. They captured beavers and other fur-bearing rodents, packed them into boxes, attached parachutes and dropped them from a plane into the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness."

Great name!

 

[vernon]

"In the 1940s the department was trying to deal with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions when wildlife managers settled on a novel idea. They captured beavers and other fur-bearing rodents, packed them into boxes, attached parachutes and dropped them from a plane into the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness."

Great name!

There's hundreds of bizarre place names in that neck of the woods (sic). I picked up a few tourist maps when I was cycling in Washington State and Idaho and was bewildered by the names allocated to trail heads and remote hiking areas. Some of them i'd be unable to keep a straight face should I have needed to ask for directions. Sadly none spring to mind and I left the maps with my host in America - he's a map freak and collects them.

 

[colly]

Well I understand that during the war silk parachutes were turned in to knickers.
So I suppose it's just carrying on with tradition.