28
Oct
Rising Extinction
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1. Beaver Dams Good for Birds The songbird has a friend in the beaver. According to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the busy beaver’s signature dams provide critical habitat for a variety of migratory songbirds, particularly in the semi-arid interior of the West. Researchers found that through dam building, beavers create ponds... Read More
08
Jul
Saving Habitats and Lives
Seven Steps to Winning for Wildlife Delaware Activists’ Plan Saves Beavers and Canada Geese By Bob Leonard Read the full article: How Conservation Easements Save Habitats and Lives After a mid-life reassessment and the death of a close animal companion in 1998, I wanted to do more than just support animal organizations financially. That fall I... Read More
15
Apr
Beaver Believers
A Feature Documentary The Beaver Believers is a feature documentary that tells the urgent yet whimsical story of an unlikely cadre of activists – a biologist, a hydrologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a psychologist, and a hairdresser – who share a common vision: restoring the North American Beaver, the most industrious, ingenious, bucktoothed little engineer,... Read More
15
Apr
Beaver Restoration
Leave It To Beavers In Washington By Hannelore Sudermann As we crunch through the snow in the hills above Winthrop, Steve Bondi 02 and Ryan Anderson ’08 are eager to see evidence that their project to improve riparian habitat and provide late-season water to the Methow Valley is working. They’re building dams, but with the... Read More
28
Feb
BWW Awards Scottish Beaver Group
BWW Gives Award to Scottish Beaver Advocates Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife, an environmental nonprofit based in New York, recently presented an award to Paul and Louise Ramsay for their decade of work to restore beavers to Scotland. Owen and Sharon Brown, leaders of Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife (BWW), traveled to Scotland and presented the award,... Read More
21
Aug
Fish and Dams
People and Fish Terry Lee, who’s been a water resource specialist for 25 years, has an innovative solution for today’s problem of more frequent and severe floods: let nature’s engineers restore natural water storage. Like other planners nationwide, Lee must cope with a landscape that’s lost much floodplain storage, just as extreme weather events are... Read More
15
May
Picture Perfect Streams?
by Patricia Marshall Picture Perfect Streams The stream sparkles under the blue, New Mexico sky. You can get right down to the water’s edge on the gravel that lines the banks, maybe for a swim out to the sandbar in the middle. Picturesque and appealing, the stretch of the Gila River shown in this postcard... Read More
21
Jan
Climate Change and Beaver Activity
1. Climate Change and Beaver Activity: How Restoring Nature’s Engineers Can Alleviate Problems By Suzanne Fouty Variability is a defining principle of our global climate. Both species and stream/riparian ecosystems evolved with that reality. There have always been years when the rains did not come or years when the rains came too soon or too... Read More
29
Sep
America’s Best Beaver Program
Kudos to Jake Jacobson and Snohomish County, WA Public Works Over the last ten years, Jake Jacobson has created a groundbreaking program to protect roads from beaver flooding, while saving salmon habitat in Snohomish County, Washington. This program, the first of its kind in North America, is much appreciated by those doing road maintenance, such... Read More
04
Oct
Beaver and Climate Change Adaptation in North America
A Simple, Cost-Effective Strategy The reestablishment of American beaver (Castor canadensis; beaver) and its habitat is a viable and cost-effective climate change adaptation strategy. Due to the unique hydrological engineering accomplished by dam-building beaver, support and reestablishment of beaver constitute an important climate change adaptation tool in the United States. The information presented here demonstrates... Read More