Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

Beaver ponds contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient that can become a pollutant when too much is present. Land managers need to know if beaver ponds are storing or releasing nitrogen, but chemical ...

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 ...

Beavers spend weeks hauling logs and packing mud to build one of nature's most impressive structures, yet they never sleep ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PIKE NATIONAL FOREST — In a picture-postcard setting with the sweet scent of pines wafting down the hillside and the pungent aroma of willows after the rain ...

Beaver ponds are found throughout the Colorado High Country. Toss a lightweight fly rod in your vehicle and hit some High Country roads. Any short hike along a mountain stream will lead to a beaver ...

First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes. With its chisel-like teeth, a beaver can fell a tree in a matter of hours. The animals eat the bark and ...

Shots from the cottonmouth morning. With all the attention focused on our rivers and the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, we often forget the ponds and puddles, the small places in the woods where so much of our ...