Okay, there are a lot of beaver videos here. Some general information, but most are how ordinary folks are changing their habits to rewild their land. I find that the most encouraging. Gnaw away at this post as you have time. This guy has a great intro into all things Beaver and Climate: Nov …
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Dec 14, 2020This is a neat story about dreams coming true. Preston, Idaho rancher Jay Wilde had a dream of restoring beaver to Birch Creek on his cattle ranch near Preston in Southeast Idaho. He tried to restore beaver on his own nickle, but they didn’t stay. Jay eventually reached out to Joe Wheaton, a watershed scientist at Utah State University, who helped him solve the puzzle. See how Jay worked with Wheaton and Nick Bouwes from Utah State and Anabranch Solutions to introduce beaver successfully with a science-based plan and low-tech woody structures to create deep-water habitat for beavers.
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Oct 26, 2021Could the American beaver—”nature’s engineers”—be Colorado’s secret weapon to cleaning up waterways and abandoned mines? Rory Cowie thinks so. Cowie has been a hydrologist for more than 15 years. He explained that Beavers are known to be keystone species, meaning they are critical to their ecosystem and the other species within it. In the case of the beaver, their engineering skills build vital water areas. “They attract and increase the biodiversity of wildlife coming into those areas, which is really important to the overall ecosystem health,” Cowie elaborated. The animals also improve water quality. When water sits in beaver-built ponds, it soaks into the ground and the porous earth acts as a filter before the water re-enters the water system down river. Read the full story: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mou…
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This one is rather long, but the last 10 minutes are great, so don’t miss them.
Oct 21, 2022Beavers, which were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th century, are making a comeback and in the process are helping to restore valuable wetland ecosystems. Known as nature’s engineers they restore wetland habitats through dam-building and felling trees, slowing, storing and filtering water in their habitat, which attracts other wildlife and reduces flooding downstream.In the UK, 90% of wetland habitats have been lost over the last 100 hundred years. These waterlogged environments are rich in biodiversity and the loss has led to a drastic decline of wildlife. They are also important in countering the effects of extreme weather conditions, storing and absorbing the water flow during floods and storms.
Guy Henderson heads to Devon to see beavers flourishing in English rivers. Derek Gow, a key figure in rewilding beavers, shows the difference they have made to his land. As the former farm was being transformed, Gow also introduced a number of other lost British species, turning it into a biodiversity hotspot. Recent changes to legislation mean the beaver now has protected status in England as it does in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe.
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Despair only limits future action – Simon Clark
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Okay, that’s enough about our neighbors, the beaver, for today. I’m going to focus on rewilding in the next couple of post before I tackle some more technology advancements. Some fun solar, wind and geothermal advancements are in the works. I hope the video presentations work for you guys, I like them because I think seeing people’s enthusiasm and commitment works better than just reading dry facts.
This is a doom and gloom free thread