December floods filled this otherwise-dry stream in central Pennsylvania, but human-crafted beaver dam imitations slowed the flow of stormwater downstream. Photo courtesy Siobhan Fathel. SAINT PAUL, ...

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PROJECT INCLUDES BUILDING A BEAVER DAM AT BERNHEIM. THEY SAY HARD WORK PAYS OFF AND THANKS TO THE HARD WORK OF THESE EMPLOYEES AT GRISHAM, SMITH AND BERNHEIM FOREST, THE PAYOFF IS GOING TO BE CLEANER ...

In remote areas of the Warm Springs Reservation and sometimes far off it, restoration crews are rebuilding creeks with an unlikely partner: the beaver. Rather than relying on large equipment, the ...

Beavers (Castor canadensis) are widely recognized as ecosystem engineers, building dams that reshape water flow and alter the ...

Beavers returning to rivers across North America and Europe are doing far more than building dams. A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows that reintroduced beaver populations physically ...

On a warm spring day, mud-splattered volunteers mimicked beavers as they stacked coyote brush and soil into a dam with the goal of catching more water in San Luis Obispo’s Walters Creek. Water only ...

No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but ...

Once numbering as many as 400 million in North America, modern Castor canadensis—the North American beaver—has been reduced to just 10 million due to relentless fur-hunting. Known for felling trees ...

Torrey Ritter may not have been born a beaver believer, but he was a quick convert. The signs were too obvious to miss, even for a young biologist just starting his career with Montana Fish, Wildlife ...

DENVER – High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest ...