Wonder of Nature

It's a wonder of nature!
A beaver was spotted in New York City for the first time in two hundred years.
The beaver was found in the Bronx River, the once dirty river that runs through the Bronx Zoo.
Biologists named the beaver, Jose; after U.S. Representative, Jose Serrano,
for his work to revive and clean up the Bronx River.
Mr. Serrano had secured over fourteen million dollars for the Bronx River cleanup.

New York City (or New Amsterdam, as it was called when beavers had still lived there)
was once full of beavers, but amid heavy trapping, their numbers dwindled.
In fact, beaver trapping was the driving force of New Amsterdam's economy in the eighteenth century.
All the beavers were gone from the New York City area by the early 1800s, and they were almost extinct by 1930.

Jose's twig and mud lodge had been spotted on the shores of the river earlier.
The beavers have been making a comeback into the area east of the Mississippi River, where they haven't been in over two hundred years. In the words of John Calvelli, "If you give wildlife a chance, it will come back."