Sometimes called the original "ecosystem engineers," beavers and the techniques they use are guiding conservationists in New Mexico to protect scarce water resources. Defenders of Wildlife is working ...

BEAVER DAM – On a Monday afternoon in early March 2018, an explosion at an apartment building made Beaver Dam — a small city of about 16,000 people in southeast Wisconsin — a hub for local ...

Wells, Nev. • Horace Smith blew up a lot of beaver dams in his life. A rancher here in northeastern Nevada, he waged war against the animals, frequently with dynamite.

Beaver dams and canals create wetlands and retain water, providing a wildfire-resistant safe haven for wildlife and speeding post-fire recovery, as this region in Baugh Creek, Idaho, shows.

Trout Unlimited built 75 artificial beaver dams — technically called “beaver dam analogs” or BDAs — at Mud Creek and nearby Winter Quarters Creek last fall.

We collected field data on 27 beaver ponds and associated dams in the central Rocky Mountains in Colorado, USA to assess sedimentation dynamics and model watershed sediment yield. Field measurements ...

They were building, in essence, lots of little dams, known as beaver dam analogues. “Normally, a beaver would do this,” Hurley said. “But hunting and stuff like that has just run them out.” ...

Beaver dams can be massive structures. The largest beaver dam on record is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, stretching the length of seven football fields . The dam is so big, it can be ...

Previously installed “beaver deceivers” were successful in driving beavers out of Memorial Park, but they've been building a metropolis upstream, including a dam, a hut and a sizable pond.