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

Deep in Canada, a beaver-built dam is so massive it’s visible from space, quietly shaping wetlands for decades—discover how ...

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 ...

Wood Buffalo National Park, in Canada, which spans northern Alberta and parts of the Northwest Territories, contains the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rio Grande is one of North America’s great rivers, flowing nearly 1,900 miles from southern Colorado through New Mexico and along the Texas-Mexico border. It’s a lifeline that provides freshwater ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beavers build dam in Czech Republic A colony of beavers has saved the Czech government almost £1 million after completing a ...

Historic dams can sometimes have beneficial impacts on surrounding wildlife, plants, and waterways, as with the dam that created Ames Pond in Shutesbury that sustains a rare natural bog ecosystem. / ...