Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...

Artificial beaver dams are spreading across the Pacific Northwest. New research shows they may help rivers handle warming temperatures.

The use of artificial beaver dams to replicate the ecological benefits created by the industrious rodents shows promise for offsetting damage to fish habitat, water quality, and biodiversity arising ...

Quick Take Oregon officially named the American beaver as its state mammal in 1969 after long informal symbolism. ...

Beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that brown trout can successfully navigate beaver dams -- obstacles which were previously thought to pose a significant barrier to their movement. A groundbreaking ...

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