UP A LAZY RIVER

heidi08 Beavers December 4, 2024

This isn’t about beavers, but it relaxed me very much yesterday and made me remember how the sound of water and feel of balance is so essential to their lives.

Enjoy:

BEAVER EDUCATION STARTS WITH CHILDREN

heidi08 Beavers December 3, 2024

How beavers affect riverine aquatic macroinvertebrates: a review

As ecosystem engineers, the construction of dams by beavers alters stream habitat physically and 0biologically, making them a species of interest for habitat restoration. Beaver-created habitat changes affect a wide range of aquatic invertebrate species. However, despite numerous individual studies of how beavers affect aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages, there has been no evaluation of the consensus of these effects across studies.

Until now. Read the full review here.

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ONE MAN’S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE

heidi08 Attitudes towards beavers, Beaver relocation December 1, 2024

I’ve been frustrated with Utah’s beaver relocation program in the past but this was very close to cheerful. The only missing piece is a discussion of how difficult and expensive relocation is for both humans and beavers and how flow devices can be used to coexist.

Utah program helping relocate beavers to restore environment

PARADISE, Cache County — Agencies from around the country are looking to Utah for a new program designed to help preserve our outdoor spaces, and it all has to do with the beaver.

BETTER BEAVER BALANCING ACT

heidi08 Beavers November 30, 2024

This recent video of Mike Digout in Sascatchewan got my full attention. This beaver is working VERY hard to get this little scrubby weed. clamboring over those boulders has to be difficult with wet webbed feet. And if s/he slips into a crevice that beaver will never get their heavy body out. It’s so inaccessible and given his poor eyesight he can’t possibly be seeing it from the water.

That weed must smell fantastic!

I do remember faintly with our beavers there were a few rare scrub plants worth taking risks for. Most notably with our first mom beaver. One winter she went crazy for this little nondescript white flower and on election night she actually climbed UP the steep bank towards the county building and came face to face with a vote counter taking a coffee break.

They were both VERY surprised.