How beavers impact ecosystems above and below ground

As ecosystem engineers, beavers build resilience into the landscape. Above ground, we can see changes wrought by beaver ponds ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Beavers, their dams put to work restoring streams

In this Sept. 12, 2014, photo, a young beaver looks out from a cage at a holding facility in Ellensburg, Wash. Under a program in central Washington, nuisance beavers are being trapped and relocated ...
KJZZ

As Lake Powell recedes, beavers are building back

Drought and steady demand along the Colorado River are draining the nation's second-largest reservoir. Land that was once ...
Adirondack Explorer

Copying beavers to restore a river

The Boquet River Association is drawing lessons for restoring Adirondack rivers from the experts: beavers. BRASS hopes by ...
Courthouse News Service

Beaver dam analogues offer stormwater solution in Pennsylvania stream

December floods filled this otherwise-dry stream in central Pennsylvania, but human-crafted beaver dam imitations slowed the flow of stormwater downstream. Photo courtesy Siobhan Fathel. SAINT PAUL, ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Writers on the Range: Are beavers always the answer? Not really

Beavers, through their assiduous dam building, can recharge groundwater and provide habitat for fish and wildlife. In the Pacific Northwest, for example, managers are bringing back beaver as part of ...
LancasterOnline

Fake beaver dams may be next big restoration tool for ecologists

SELINSGROVE, Snyder County — Matt Wilson is a stream and restoration ecologist who dwells on the works of nature, then mimics them for healing streams. So when he read about successful efforts in the ...
The Pueblo Chieftain

WOTR: Are beavers always the answer? Not really

Beavers, through their assiduous dam building, can recharge groundwater and provide habitat for fish and wildlife. In the Pacific Northwest, for example, managers are bringing back beaver as part of ...
Mongabay News on MSN

California learns from its beaver reintroductions

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam ...
OPB

These students are building dams over the summer — with hopes to lure beavers back

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB Sheep Creek, a few miles west of La Grande, feeds the headwaters of the Grande Ronde River. Over the years, the area — nestled in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest that ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Problem beavers become more common as population rises

There might be more beavers in Minnesota today than at any other time in state history. Minnesotans who live near water commonly must deal with beavers that cut trees and dam streams, leading to ...
MLive

Too many beavers harm Michigan’s trout streams, conservationists warn

LANSING, MI – Beavers are considered ecological architects, but certain conservationists are worried there can be too many in some areas of Michigan. State wildlife and fisheries managers recently ...