Parachuting beavers: Archive footage shows kooky 40s project, USA

Credit: YouTube/ Idaho Department of Fish and Game Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials struggling to manage a growing beaver population in the 1940s and 1950s struck on an unusual solution. The rangers took advantage of a surplus of parachutes following World War II to launch a program to trap and air drop beavers into the remote the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area.