Low-tech, human-made dams modeled after beaver dams are being used to restore fire-damaged landscapes in the Elko region, ...

Wood Buffalo National Park, in Canada, which spans northern Alberta and parts of the Northwest Territories, contains the largest beaver dam ever recorded. The structure lies deep within the park, far ...

BUTTE — Admirers of the toothy rodents refer to the furbearers as ecosystem engineers. Others view beavers and their dam-building expertise as gnawing nuisances, leading to the human equivalent of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana Conservation Corps members have been busy as beavers with their latest project, earning ...

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 ...

Fewer than a dozen permitted projects that incorporate beaver dam analogs or similar wooden structures have been built in Wisconsin to date. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently ...

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 ...