As the Arctic warms, beavers move in

Knowable Magazine ^ | 10 Dec 2022 | Sharon Levy

[blueplum]

It began decades ago, with a few hardy pioneers slogging north across the tundra. It’s said that one individual walked so far to get there that he rubbed the skin off the underside of his long, flat tail. Today, his kind have homes and colonies scattered throughout the tundra in Alaska and Canada — and their numbers are increasing....

...Scientists have come to view their landscape engineering as beneficial, and even critical in some vulnerable ecosystems. In many places south of the tundra, conservationists have moved to protect and reintroduce beavers to restore stream and wetland habitats.

But in the Arctic, beavers are sometimes seen as unwelcome intruders that could disrupt life on the tundra. Beaver dams are already making hunting and fishing more difficult for some people in the Arctic...

[blueplum]

The beavers were there first. They are thought to have thrived in the arctic some 7 million years ago, having crossed from Eurasia via Beringia

[Sacajaweau]

More like beavers move back in...

[DannyTN]

Beavers! well dam!

[Erik Latranyi]

The human benefits of hydrocarbon energy are undeniable.

The world is a better place, the environment is better and mankind is thriving thanks to hydrocarbons.

Renewables are leading to increased mining, environmental destruction and poverty for humans.

The deserts are shrinking thanks to the increased CO2. The Earth is more green than ever before.

But the unreliable renewables are causing Europeans to strip forests down for backup energy. This is damaging.

Whenever the discussion turns to “evil oil”, remind them that the benefits to humanity cannot be matched by renewables and that the population will decline (on purpose) because there is no dependable alternative for hydrocarbons.

Banning hydrocarbons is depopulation.

[Sacajaweau]

The story has some teeth to it...

[metmom]

Only leftists would flip over nature doing what it does naturally.

I thought that was the whole idea behind getting rid of people aka population reduction. To save the planet. I guess beavers never got the memo.

[DannyTN]

[bagster]

I was gonna do a beaver joke, but you ninja'd me. I'll just move along.

[Dr. Franklin]

The Beavers Dam The River

[Candor7]

Canadian Beavers are nothing to mess with. They are prrimordially powerful and can be found frequenting night clubs from Newfoundland to Nanaimo.

If they are moving North due to global schwarming, the Inuit are going to have blisters on their noses.And all of Canada will be able to achieve Inuktituk.

[Westbrook]

[tlozo]

But hunters have trapped beavers heavily across the northern hemisphere, so part of what we’re seeing is a natural rebound. For example, in the woods around Fairbanks, there probably weren’t many beavers 150 years ago. But because the records don’t go back to before the fur trade, we don’t know if beavers were ever out there. And that’s an important question.

[Eleutheria5]

Disrupting hunters and fishers? Can’t they just hunt the damned beavers? I hear their pelts make good hats.

[marktwain]

So, with a warming trend, life increases.

[ConservativeInPA]

You know what, if beavers don’t like the tundra, they’ll move. I bet poor, weak and stupid human will adapt to beavers on the tundra

[healy61]

Oddly enough, David Attenborough was all shivery over the wolves return to an area after reintroduction of a few. “And here is where is getting real interesting; the wolves changed the river. . . “

[SaveFerris]

There’s a summer in Canada?

[SaveFerris]

Oh I’m gonna have to borrow that one

[martin_fierro]

I experienced an entire range of reactions to this story.

[Daveinyork]

Breaker breaker one nine. Any beavers out there?