Posted on 09/17/2023 5:00:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As the nation faces a future of increasing flooding, drought and wildfires, millions of 60-pound rodents stand by, ready to assist.
Beavers can transform parched fields into verdant wetlands and widen rivers and streams in ways that not only slow surging floodwater, but store it for times of drought.
Still not impressed? In 2020, three raging wildfires in Colorado — including one with walls of flame 70 feet high — effectively bowed to the flat-tailed dam-builders, according to Emily Fairfax, an assistant professor of physical geography at the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities.
The fast-moving “megafires” left the water-saturated areas around beaver-occupied rivers largely unharmed, while beaver-free river banks suffered extensive damage.
“We desperately need to build more climate-resilient landscapes. We need to engineer something. We need to figure out a better solution,” Fairfax said. “And what I want to ask everyone to consider, is, what about nature’s engineers?”
And yes, she said, she was referring to the beaver.
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Should be a good thread.
Seriously, teeth sharp as razors.
>> As the nation faces a future of increasing flooding, drought and wildfires
Just make stuff up and some stupid people will believe anything.
BTW, when I visited Universal Studios about 1986 or 1989
The Leave it to Beaver house was about 3 houses down from The Munsters house
So the street shots had to be panned in one direction only
Mid west beaver summit.....
I wondered why there was a recent increase in You Tube videos about beavers. They’re having a summit
We had a surge locally in the bever population a decade or so back. It seems that the surge and the beavers are gone.
Interestingly, in the lakes where there were beavers, there are now otters.
These are crazy people.
"Beavers can transform parched fields into verdant wetlands," the text explains.
I don't mind beavers, where I am--even though I've seen them destroy forests by flooding. They are inherently funny, which redeems a lot of what they do, as long as they are kept under control.
And they definitely are more sane than environmentalists.
June: Ward, weren’t you a little hard on the Beaver last night?
So, Beaver dams are good but people made dams are bad. They removed dams on California’s rivers and some others in the heartland because they impede the flow of water. Beaver dams in my area cause excessive silting in the streams and rivers which leads the Department of Natural Resources to destroy the beaver dams. The author of this article needs an education.
Local state wildlife guy tried to get me to take a couple of beavers for my stream. I could see them taking out all my yard trees.
Nope
I held a few similar summits in college.
I thought this was gonna be something else…..
Sad, isn’t it? I did my bit at post 8.
I was waiting for Priscilla to show up.
She had it stuffed.
Oh, articles about the capital of Thailand.
No way
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