Routes

Planner

Features

Updates

App

Get the App

Natural Monuments

Wallonie

Beaver dam

Natural Monuments

Wallonie

Beaver dam

Highlight • Natural Monument

Beaver dam

Name: Beaver dam
Rating: 2

Recommended by 20 hikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parc naturel des Hautes-Fagnes – Eifel

Save

Location: Bütgenbach, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

Save

See hikes here

Take Me There

Routes here

Best Hikes to Beaver dam

4.8

(53)

185

hikers

1. Bridge Over the Perlenbach – Nature and root trail loop from Höfen

23.3km

06:18

280m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Expert

5.0

(19)

hikers

2. Beaver Dam on the Krockesbach – A beaver dam worth seeing loop from Elsenborn

12.3km

03:16

130m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Intermediate

4.8

(20)

hikers

3. Oberer Steg Shelter – Beaver Dam on the Krockesbach loop from Kalterherberg

8.43km

02:19

140m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Intermediate

Tips

Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

September 22, 2022

In Belgium, beavers were wiped out in 1848. From about 1990 there were obviously individual animals that immigrated to Belgium from the Eifel. Due to various naturalizations in Wallonia and Flanders, beavers are again widespread in large parts of Belgium.
Source: bibermanagement.de/Europa/Belgien/body_belgien.html

Translated by Google •

Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

September 22, 2022

The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) was originally native to Europe and Asia, but was hunted to extinction in large parts of Europe and almost all of Germany in the 19th century. Due to consistent protective measures and reintroductions in the 20th century, the population of the beaver has recovered in the last few decades. It lives in slow-flowing and stagnant waters with groves near the shore. Like no other animal, the beaver shapes the landscape according to its own requirements:
He fells trees, builds castles and dams and dams streams. In this way, he not only creates a suitable habitat for himself, but also for many plants and animals. Beavers cut down trees. They sit on their hind legs and gnaw trees about half a meter above the ground, across the trunk. They dig into the bark with their upper incisors and grate with their lower ones. This creates two parallel, almost 10 mm wide grooves around the entire trunk - the typical "hourglass shape".
THE BEAVER TROWEL:
The beaver trowel is the broadly flattened, scaly tail and a true multifunctional organ: It serves as a steering wheel when swimming, as a means of communication in the event of danger by slapping it on the water surface, as a fat store in winter, as a support when sitting and for Cool off on hot days by holding it in cold water.
Source: deutschewildtierstiftung.de/wildtiere/biber

Translated by Google •

In the know? Log-in to add a tip for other adventurers!

Details

Informations

Elevation 550 m

Weather

Today

Saturday 1 November

12°C

8°C

0 %

If you start your activity now...

Max wind speed: 25.0 km/h

Most visited during

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

See hikes here

Take Me There

Location: Bütgenbach, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

Other Popular Places to Check Out

Bieley Rock View of the Perlenbach Valley

Wide Clearing in the Eifel National Park

Ridge Trail Above Perlenau

Hasselpath Memorial Site

View of Monschau

Fuhrtsbach Valley Nature Trail

Wild Daffodil Meadows in Perlenbach-Fuhrtsbachtal

Un barrage de castors à voir

Picknickplatz "Deck Heck"

Daffodil Meadows in Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park

Bridge Over the Perlenbach

Daffodil Sculpture Trail, Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

Beaver dam

1. Bridge Over the Perlenbach – Nature and root trail loop from Höfen

2. Beaver Dam on the Krockesbach – A beaver dam worth seeing loop from Elsenborn

3. Oberer Steg Shelter – Beaver Dam on the Krockesbach loop from Kalterherberg

Other Popular Places to Check Out

We value your privacy ⛰️

We value your privacy ⛰️