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 biodiversity arising ...

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Torrey Ritter may not have been born a beaver believer, but he was a quick convert. The signs were too obvious to miss, even for a young biologist just starting his career with Montana Fish, Wildlife ...

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 ...

First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes. With its chisel-like teeth, a beaver can fell a tree in a matter of hours. The animals eat the bark and ...

Mock beaver dams can jump-start the process, reducing the timing to mere decades. They also can slow the flow of runoff and ...