We’re just in time for another edition of “Flinging Beavers from airplanes”. Seems like you can barely get in a good visit to the library between episodes these days, Thank goodness, though, that this episode has actually useful information in it and a fantastic new hero. Watch all the way through so you meet the new star of Beavers Weekly. Chris Black is perfect in the role.

What can you learn from a flying beaver?

BRUNEAU, IDAHO — Chris Black knows a lot about ranching. And he knows a little bit about wildlife habitat. That’s why he has been wanting to attract beavers to his ranch in Bruneau.

“I’ve wanted to get beaver in here for years,” said Black.
That’s why Black was happy when a cooperative effort chose his ranch for one of the first beaver dam analogue projects.

A beaver dam analogue is a man-made structure that mimics a dam naturally made by beavers. After a very short time, frogs started to thrive, and eventually biologists believe other species will benefit, including sage grouse.

You see before the news is going to tell you something actually USEFUL about beavers (or anything really) they have to tell you something very, very stupid. Because that’s just the way its done,

The  dams will also benefit water users, not only in Lemhi County, but here on Chris black’s Bruneau ranch as well.

“It’s gonna help my cows, cause the secondary effects will be more grass on the hillsides and all of that,” said Black. “But holistically, what helps my cows will help all other species too.”

I want to be best friends with every rancher that uses words like “holistically”. Don’t you?