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 ...
Wood Buffalo National Park, in Canada, which spans northern Alberta and parts of the Northwest Territories, contains the largest beaver dam ever recorded. The structure lies deep within the park, far ...
For the first time in four centuries, it’s good to be a beaver. Long persecuted for their pelts and reviled as pests, the dam-building rodents are today hailed by scientists as ecological saviors.
RIVERTON — Habitat Biologists Betsy Morgan and Amy Anderson, accompanied by volunteers from multiple organizations, recently finished construction of eight beaver dam analogs in West Cottonwood Creek ...