The Plan to Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the State

Gizmodo ^ | 10/17/15 3:30pm | Alissa Walker

[thoughtomator]

Ending the drought in the West will require rain—not too much rain—and smarter ways to collect and store that water. But something else that can keep things moist? Believe it or not: Beavers.

According to a story in Water Deeply, a group of ecologists have a plan to help repopulate the Central Coast of California with Castor canadensis, the large beavers which once roamed the state in great numbers. (Not to be confused with their ancestors, giant beavers that were seven feet long.) The idea is that beavers are nature’s hydrologists, engineering the way that water travels through the landscape:

[aquila48]

I like wet beavers.

[Gamecock]

Ward, don’t you think....

Oh, never mind.

[b4its2late]

LOL!

[Pelham]

Need.More.Beavers.Now.

[steve8714]

Are they good to eat?

[A CA Guy]

Just get back the water rights California had until Jerry Brown gave them away as Governor decades ago, and for nothing I might add.

California always had droughts, we are a dry area, but we were never allowed to build in Southern CA without water rights from the north and after three good years of rain Jerry Brown gave them away and we suffer his executive action.

[Celerity]

Wouldn’t it be great if they could only get beavers from North Carolina or Mississippi ?

[Gamecock]

May of us here in SC can’t wait for out flagship university to one day play Oregon State.

‘Cocks versus the Beavers.

[Kickass Conservative]

An old girlfriend of mine had the wettest Beav....

Er, never mind. LOL

Sorry, based on the Title of the Thread I had to go there.

[Solson]

[martinidon]

Not a bad idea, no way would the environmental wackos let them build man made dams so why not let the Beavers do it. Who is going to sue q beaver....

[Paine in the Neck]

[Doc91678]

If that’s their plan, I’ve got at least two families of beaver in my pond that I will donate for this worthy cause. Come by and live trap them out and ship ‘em out west.

[GingisK]

I thought California girls had been doing that for years.

[CivilWarBrewing]

[T-Bone Texan]

Why would you link to an article that requires me to sign up?

That’s just cruel.

[M Kehoe]

“Are they good to eat?”

Don’t know for sure, but I’ve had “deer,” and “cat.”

That is bad...

5.56mm

[Slings and Arrows]

Wynona has already made an appearance.

[humblegunner]

I love Wynona’s big brown beaver.

[V_TWIN]

When I googled it I went right to the article. had no idea sign up/in was necessary.