{"id":199431,"date":"2025-10-09T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/199431\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:55:10","slug":"beaver-warnings-issued-for-areas-just-outside-of-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/199431\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver warnings issued for areas just outside of Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you find yourself exploring two areas just outside of Edmonton, be on the lookout for the aftermath of a busy beaver or two.<\/p>\n

Alberta Parks has issued an advisory for the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area and Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, located east and southeast of Edmonton, respectively, due to the presence of beavers making a bit of a mess.<\/p>\n

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Sylvie Bouchard\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The wildlife warning stated that \u201cbeavers are actively cutting trees in the park. Be prepared to step over or navigate around downed trees that may be blocking the trail.\u201d<\/p>\n

The affected areas at Miquelon Lake include the Beaver Hills Loop Trail, Chickadee Loop Trail, Deer Loop Trail, Ermine Loop Trail, Fox Loop Trail, and the Grouse Loop Trail.<\/p>\n

The areas at Cooking Lake-Blackfoot impacted in the warning include the\u00a0Blackfoot Lake Staging Area Day Use, \u00a0Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area, Islet Lake Staging Area Day Use, Waskehegan North (from Central Alleyway to Blackfoot Trail) Trail, and Waskehegan South (Central Alleyway to Lost Lake Trail) Trail.<\/p>\n

The two parks are no strangers to wildlife, as a warning about garter snake migrations<\/a> appeared at the end of August.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t already know, Alberta is home to the world\u2019s largest beaver dam<\/a> AND a giant beaver statue, so this warning seems fitting for the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you find yourself exploring two areas just outside of Edmonton, be on the lookout for the aftermath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-199431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}