Biodiversity, Beavers, and Me
Educating the public about the value of the ecosystem, biodiversity, and watershed services beavers provide is a critical component of improving society’s stewardship of the earth. While this knowledge is critical, individual direct experiences in nature can profoundly impact a person and motivate them to put that knowledge into action. At least that was true in my case….
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How To Protect Roads AND Beavers
To a beaver, a culvert pipe through a roadbed looks like a hole in a dam. So beavers damming road culverts is the most common human-beaver flooding conflict we see. Fortunately though, most road culverts can be protected from beaver damming without the need to kill the beavers.
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What Good Are Beavers?
Most people only become aware of beavers when they are a nuisance, but did you know that biologists classify beavers as a Keystone species?
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