So this week I attended a zoom presentation on beavers and wetlands for the Center for Watershed Protection Network because Bob Boucher and Scott McGill were giving presentations on beavers and stream restoration and they both did very well talking about how much beavers matter to water storage and biodiversity and fire prevention and slowing floods. There was a good crowd gathered but you could tell that there were many in the audience that were like, wait, beavers?
Are you sure?
The host began the talk by saying that his son had beavers on his land in North Carolina and when he went to visit he could watch them slapping their tails angrily and realized “you really don’t want to hang around during breeding season”. (more…)
