100,000 Beavers Took Over Patagonia – Scientists Are Stunned by What’s Left of the Trees

There are forests on Tierra del Fuego where every tree is dead. Hundreds of white trunks standing in still water. No canopy. No leaves. Just bone-dry wood that's been there for twenty years. These were southern beech trees — some of them three hundred years old. They survived centuries of wind, ice, and storms. Two weeks of standing water killed them. The water came from beaver dams. The beavers came from Canada, released in 1946 as part of a fur farming project that failed within a year. Nobody reversed the decision. This is what happened next.