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What built America and can help fight climate change? Beavers, says HC prof in new book
Yahoo! News ^ | December 26, 2022 | By Veer Mudambi

Posted on 12/26/2022 7:43:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WORCESTER - If someone were to mention the animal that built America, you would probably think of some sort of domestic farm animal like the horse or perhaps a cow - one a beast of burden during construction, the other a key economic livestock animal.

You wouldn’t think of beavers. But that’s what they are - the animals that both literally and economically built America.

“They shaped our country’s landscape and jump-started capitalism on this continent,” said Leila Philip, a professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, who also teaches in the Environmental Studies Program, and author of "Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America," which went on sale earlier this month.

Philip has spent the last six years studying beavers and their influence on our country’s history and how they can help us in the future by mitigating the effects of the climate crisis. In "Beaverland," she explains why we need beavers, dispel myths about them and how to harness them in nature-based solutions to climate resiliency.

The most important takeaway for Philip is that although she came to realize that not only have beavers shaped the continent, “they have a huge new role to play in helping us deal with the greatest crisis of our generation - climate change.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: beavers; globalwarming; hoax; nicebeaver; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 12/26/2022 7:43:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 12/26/2022 7:46:45 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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3 posted on 12/26/2022 7:46:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too early for the jokes I guess….


4 posted on 12/26/2022 7:46:54 AM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: Larry Lucido

7 seconds


5 posted on 12/26/2022 7:47:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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LOL yep!


6 posted on 12/26/2022 7:48:52 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shirley, she’s joking


7 posted on 12/26/2022 7:49:01 AM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So....

Human dams bad

Animal dams good ?

You know what helped capitalism?

Human dams that stopped property and commerce destructions from floods.


8 posted on 12/26/2022 7:49:06 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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I have always been, and remain, Pro-Beaver.


9 posted on 12/26/2022 7:49:39 AM PST by drwoof
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Here’s to the beavers that gave birth to our great nation!


10 posted on 12/26/2022 7:50:54 AM PST by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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Yeah, Creating a lot of mosquito infested swamps!
That helps a lot!


11 posted on 12/26/2022 7:51:07 AM PST by AZJeep
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For the entire seven years that I was a boy scout, I was a member of the Beaver Patrol.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 7:54:48 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: ClearCase_guy; Larry Lucido

You guys are right on top of it. Good job.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 8:01:23 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Justin Beaver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggHeuhpFvg


14 posted on 12/26/2022 8:01:41 AM PST by Rio
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Read a couple of comic books and thinks he knows history.


15 posted on 12/26/2022 8:08:03 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The beaver should be our national mammal.


16 posted on 12/26/2022 8:10:38 AM PST by bigbob (z)
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To: cuz1961

The water behind dams allows vegetation to rot and release methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. They need to be torn down to protect the ert.

But only dams in the West do this.

Dams in China do not, neither do ones built by beavers. It’s science!


17 posted on 12/26/2022 8:10:46 AM PST by packagingguy
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Wonder if i am the only one on this forum running a trap line...Wonder if I’m the only gamekeeper here too..Beaver is a very strange looking animal that does lots of damage.


18 posted on 12/26/2022 8:21:49 AM PST by curdogmen (Ladner Yellow Blackmouth Curs...Kemmer Stock Mountain Curs)
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19 posted on 12/26/2022 8:23:54 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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20 posted on 12/26/2022 8:28:11 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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