The problem is the tree happened to fall on a power transmission line and soon nearly 3,000 residents were out of power, according to a spokesman for the power company, Emera Maine.
"(The downed tree) is in a very remote, wooded area which has been challenging to reach, but workers will remain working to restore power by mid-morning," Bob Potts, spokesperson for Emera, told the Bangor Daily News.
Beavers are known for their impressive construction skills — building dams on rivers and streams, and building their homes in the resulting pond. They use their powerful front teeth to cut down trees for their construction projects.
While beavers tend to enhance their surrounding habitats, making them swampy havens for other wildlife, occasionally their work clashes with human-made systems. The rodents have been known to block irrigation, cause flooding on roads and fields — and knock down power lines.
As often-cited W.T. Cox wrote in a 1940 article in American Forest, "Beavers do not belong in thickly-settled communities, since their flooding operations may become troublesome...In the wild forest country, they do little harm and an immense amount of good."
From Discovery News
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