Oregon just can’t stop shouting about beavers. Good. Maybe next time they vote on whether to kill them or not they’ll pick door number two. Meanwhile there’s articles like this:

Beavers, Our Eager Aquifer Engineers 

Well, today, the beaver has an equal degree of importance, but in the area of water conservation. As a positive factor in water conservation, beaver have no equal, and the knowledge of how they function in this all-important role is just becoming known to us.

The water impounded by these dams is what a beaver is after. They build their stick and soil homes in the ponds to keep them safe from predators and provide a place to start a family. And it is that water that makes the beaver irreplaceable in creating one of the best resources for water conservation.

The water keeps rising behind the dams and eventually will become part of our underground aquifers vital to so many parts of human civilization. For that reason, there are several conservation organizations restoring beavers to their native habitats.

Ahh beavers are blushing. The way you do go on! Well of course beavers save water better then anyone. That’s what we were meant to do!

Like it or not, everyone who uses water is unknowingly depending on the dam-building talents of our North American Beaver. Without question, we have the industrious beaver to thank for helping keep the water available for us to drink, cook with, flush our toilets with, irrigate with, and use as we will in hundreds of other ways.

That’s well said. Dam straight! And a great shoutout to our new cousins in the beaver-saving world.

A new pro-beaver organization has come to the fore in Central Oregon, “Beaver Oregon Works.” If you live on a stream or river and have landscape that may be at risk to being utilized by a beaver, go to their web site, beaverworks.org, or email them at: info@beaverworks.org. Their field technicians can mitigate any beaver issues you may be encountering.

This organization states that beavers create wetlands and are the “Earth’s Kidney” and as such provide downstream drought and flood protection, water table and aquifer recharge and improved water quality. They even help bring back salmon to the Northwest.

Removal of beaver from their ancestral habitats has wrought the alteration of many ecosystems, causing flooding, drying up of marshes, plus loss of salmon and other wildlife environments.

Goodness gracious! We could hardly have said it better ourselves.