Beavers in Las Vegas? A secret garden in Sin City spotlights river restoration success

On the eastern edge of the Las Vegas Valley sit hundreds of acres of watery wetlands. A secret garden of sorts, the Clark County Wetlands Park seems like stepping into another world. The air slightly ...
The Berkshire Eagle

Bugs the Beaver's defenders can rest easy. The animal's habitat at Canoe Meadows will be untouched by the Rest of River cleanup

What Tooley and several others believed would be a total excavation of the sanctuary will, in fact, be confined to areas ...
KSL

Llama ranch among properties devastated by Beaver flooding

There's a lot to clean up, and Colton Brauer doesn't know where to begin. "This is pretty extreme," Brauer told KSL, standing ...
kpax

East Fork wetland restoration project has Bitterrooters building like beavers

SULA — Outside Sula, crews are busy as beavers, literally, mimicking beaver dams as part of a collaborative project to restore the headwaters of the East Fork of the Bitterroot River. “Basically, ...

How Arizona's beavers could be a secret weapon in fire prevention

The wet pockets of beaver habitat also provide refuge for animals fleeing from fires. In 2021, the Beckwourth megafire ...
The Guardian

Experimental bathtub: the remote lake island trying wave power to boost energy security

University of Michigan researchers Saeid Bayat (left) and Hanzhi Mou prepare to demonstrate their prototype wave energy converters to the residents of Beaver Island ...
The New York Times

Beaver Statue Honoring the United States Is Smashed in Toronto

One of dozens of statues of Canada’s national animal, part of a public art installation for the World Cup, was destroyed. It was the one wearing stars and stripes. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from Toronto ...
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'It's just devastation.' Beaver residents fear what may have already been lost in Cottonwood Fire

BEAVER, Utah — It's been a stressful 24 hours for Beaver residents like Bruce Brown and Bruce Williams as the massive Cottonwood Fire exploded within hours, and right down the road from their homes, ...
CNN

This city had a flooding problem. So it turned to an animal that had been extinct there for 400 years

A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, a lush urban wetland is being built by an unusual and furry group of city residents: beavers. This ...
KPBS

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about how local communities are moving forward on climate solutions LONDON — Until two years ago, West London's Greenford Tube station used to ...
KSL

USU researchers working with beaver to preserve water

LOGAN — The work of a Utah State University team — as well as one of nature’s engineers — is preventing farmland from drying up in Utah and across the west. By observing, studying and working with ...
Seattle Times

You can watch Cowlitz Tribe’s livestream of baby beaver family

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe is livestreaming a family of four baby beavers and their mother as they prepare to be relocated into the wild. On the Cowlitz “Kit Cam” — because baby beavers are known as ...