Category: Beavers

For years I’ve been saying that Washington state was the very best place to be a beaver because people understood more about your benefits and knew better how to deal with you. I guess that’s not always the case because this news report made me chuckle, especially the part about the beaver driving away the salmon.
I guess nothing is ever perfect when it comes to beavers.

There were once 400 million beavers in North America until trapping nearly wiped them out. Miles O’Brien travels from a Wyoming ranch to a Minnesota lab tracing the rebound of these industrious rodents. Rancher Tom Chant is a “beaver believer” after seeing his dry and dusty creek turn lush once beaver dams moved in, proving nature’s original engineers may be the West’s best hope against drought. Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue | Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien