A Guide to Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered (2009)

Maura Doyle
A Guide to Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered
46 pages, soft cover, perfect bound, fully illustrated in black and white 
Edition of 100
7 x 5 inches
April 2009
 
A Guide to Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered documents the history of beaver architecture as recorded by the human animal and highlights cross-species exchange as a possible influence on the beaver's work. It includes documentation of unconventional beaver works, such as the beaver dam in North Dakota made entirely with coal and mud; the chewed stick and a pink T-shirt dam barricade at a Haliburton (Ontario) beaver sanctuary; and the "fallen log dam", which was constructed around a fallen log in Michigan.
 
Produced in conjunction with the exhibition New Age Beaver
at Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto)
April 24 - May 23, 2009