Which National Park Is Home to the Worlds Largest Beaver Dam?
Editor’s note: In an effort to better understand how other countries are managing their parklands, and to compare and contrast U.S. efforts to those from abroad, Traveler on occasion runs items from beyond U.S. borders. Not so many decades ago, the beaver population in North America was in decline, thanks largely to the fur trade. Beaver numbers are on the rebound, and the animals can be found in a number of national parks. Do you know which park can claim it’s home to the world’s largest beaver dam? A clue is found in the first sentence of this story, because the answer is a park in North America… but not the U.S. A. Wood Buffalo National Park, in northern Alberta, is the largest Canadian national park, and according to Parks Canada, the second largest protected area in the world. Most American’s have a difficult time visualizing 44,807 square kilometers—the size of this park—so here’s some perspective: that’s an area larger than the country of Swizerland. Wood Buffalo is a place of p
