Dog mascot - complete with uniform and wings - of VS-1, D7, Naval Air Station in Florida, 1943. (Photo: National Museum of the US Navy/flickr)
Sometimes, to save a beaver, you have to throw it out of a plane.
In the fall of 1948 a pilot and an Idaho Fish and Game Department conservation officer boarded a small plane with eight crates of beavers and flew to the Chamberlain Basin—a wilderness of mountains, streams, lakes and forest—and heaved the animals overboard.
Sometimes, to save a beaver, you have to throw it out of a plane.
In the fall of 1948 a pilot and an Idaho Fish and Game Department conservation officer boarded a small plane with eight crates of beavers and flew to the Chamberlain Basin—a wilderness of mountains, streams, lakes and forest—and heaved the animals overboard.