The Detroit River, once plentiful along the water 150 years ago, seems to be making a comeback, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Reporter John Gallagher writes that a trail camera set up at DTE Energy's River Rouge Power Plant recently caught images of a beaver out for his nighttime meal.
The camera also caught the beaver, dragging a small tree into the river.
He writes:
The return of the native creature was heralded in early 2009 after perhaps a century without seeing any evidence of beaver in Detroit. A beaver was spotted having built a lodge at the DTE Conners Creek power plant. He moved on during that summer, but in November of that year was spotted having returned with a family.
Now there is fresh evidence that the beaver are multiplying along several points of the Detroit and Rouge rivers and might be making a sustained comeback in the city, said John Hartig, a manager with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He said evidence of beaver has been found at the Conners Creek plant in Detroit, the River Rouge plant and other points.
