These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the fires, the rivers have become faster, dirtier, and harder to manage.

Beavers are again proving themselves to be nature's unsung heroes. If you're enjoying freshwater swimming or fishing in Scotland, you might have the hard-working rodents to thank, according to the ...

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

High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and ...

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 ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once numbered as many as 400 million in North America. Felling mighty trees with ...

Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources may trap and remove beavers from 21 state-owned dams impacted by beaver-induced debris. The plan is an effort to comply with new technical standard dam safety ...

A family of beavers are constructing a metropolis above Memorial Park, including an expansive dam that’s creating a pool upstream. Photo by Patrick Bilow/Stowe Reporter This story by Patrick Bilow was ...