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Daily Bread for 8.14.25: One of the Strangest Conservation Efforts in American History

Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:00 and sunset is 7:57, for 13 hours, 57 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 68.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1948, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver Drop takes place. The program relocated beavers from northwestern Idaho to central Idaho by airplane and then parachuting the beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.


It’s all true.


And here’s an unusual effort of the present day — Meet the English springer spaniel who sniffs out threats to honey bee colonies:

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