Beaver Invasion Could Speed Artic Warming

The Weather Channel ^ | 12/29/2017 | Weather Channel

[packrat35]

Beaver Invasion Could Speed Artic Warming

[zek157]

The beavers did her a favor. Bradford pears tend to grow to a certain size and commit suicide by shedding branches.

[Bonemaker]

“In my experience Beavers definitely create warming!”

Indeed. And there’s always a shortage of beaver boards out in the boonies.

[Bonemaker]

“More BS from The Weather Channel “

Ugh...plenty fine beaver on Weather Channel.

[Bonemaker]

“My sister’s once beautiful Bradford Pear tree that was cut down in one night’s work is proof”

Natures engineers. Treasure them.

[ontap]

I was thinking of another sort of beaver!!!!

[Bonemaker]

“In my experience Beavers definitely create warming!”

More like a cold sweat.

[littleharbour]

The global warming angle is Fake News but there has been a boom in the beaver population in Canada due to significant reductions in trapping the critters. Ecosystems tend to find an equilibrium and ours has depended on trapping to keep the beaver population in check. There are many areas where I live that have been flooded by beaver dams that 20 years ago were just small creeks.

[Palio di Siena]

All your beaver are belong to me

[shanover]

Beaver LMAO!

What's wrong?

[mountn man]

Nuthin like warm beaver.

[onona]

This thread should be fun

[left that other site]

As I am reading this, I am boiling the next pot of salt water to pour down my frozen drains and praying the pipes don’t burst in the process.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

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[pa_dweller]

...and then it began to rain.)

Nice one!

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[right way right]

Could Beaver fur hats and coats be coming back into style?

[WMarshal]

The great thing about Beavers and their dance is that they slow the water in the watershed and it leads to a much higher water table and a richer riparian environment.

Benefits of beavers:
• Reduce damaging floods
• Recharge drinking water aquifers
• Remove pollutants from surface and ground water
• Drought protection
• Decreased erosion
• Produce food for fish and other animals
• Support biodiversity, including 43% of our endangered species
• Increase salmon populations
• Create various vital habitats
• Repair incised and damaged stream channels and watersheds
• Preserve open space
• Maintain stream and river flow

Also I'm happy that Earth may be entering another warm period (which is not because of CO2 the way) because a warmer environment is a richer environment. CO2 has been scientifically proven to increase plant growth and lower the water use a plants and has been used in green houses for decades to increase yields.

[Rebelbase]

Not many Bradford Pear trees on the North Slope. Or any other trees...

[null and void]

They still can’t spell “arctic”?

[Oscar in Batangas]

Those little beevers are quite stuning