The most natural question about a beaver's diet likely involves what we see them munching on the most: wood. Well, it would appear that they use the woody substance for more than just stopping up ...

2. An adult beaver can weigh up to 60 pounds. 3. Beavers are vegetarians; they eat plants and trees, and prefer aspen, cottonwood, willow and dogwood. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not eat ...

After the nuisance beaver has been killed, landowners may dispose of or retain the beaver killed, so long as they don’t eat it, and authorities haven’t given them any required disposal methods.

As the landscape dried up 10,000 years ago this dam-less beaver couldn't create it's own home. ... and therefore not suited to chewing or eating wood. (Florida Museum of Natural History) ...