QuoteAlphairon - 4/1/2012 6:24 PM
AHHHH... but can you IDENTIFY what kind of Beaver food????
I don't have any powder just this funny looking Playdough stuff 
Well, I believe that may be a segment of Populus tremuloides, or as most people know it, Quaking Aspen.
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Very good Little observed fact about the Aspen is that it's a cloned tree, meaning it reproduces exact specimens of itself on top of the same, old roots! Pando (Latin for "I spread"), or The Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by genetic markers and one massive underground root system. Estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg making it the heaviest known organism on the planet. The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old (some estimates are much highter), is among the oldest known living organisms.
So when you see an Aspen Grove, like the one I have around my house down south, large portions or all of it are actually 1 tree duplicated again and again! That particular tree shown was part of the dead and down ones I cut every year. It's had about 3 years air drying time.
