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Scientists Are Building Fake Beaver Dams to Help Burned Forests Heal
These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the ...
The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...
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Beaver-inspired artificial dams could help protect rivers from climate change
Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The use of artificial beaver dams to replicate the ecological benefits created by the industrious rodents shows promise for offsetting damage to fish habitat, water quality, and ...
MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...
Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...
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An ecosystem engineer’s vision: mock beaver dams to restore Wisconsin wetlands
Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches. At 63, the ...
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 ...
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