'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
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They can do anything
aug 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 3 1 • view
I remember that ad campaign by Bell Canada!
aug 31, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Once they covered all of North America by the millions. Even the desert needs beaver to dam water and give animals of all kind life. Once they were even here in Death Valley. That blows my mind but explains drops in wildlife over the last 10,000 yrs. Water is life.
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 pm • 2 1 • view
I thought Canada’s national emblem was those cuddly, friendly geese?
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Nature saving the Earth?! Who-woulda-thunk-it 😋
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Proof that beavers are smarter than Republicans.
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth!
aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
NGL, this is giving me a craving to fire up some Timberborn! store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/...
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
@nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social
aug 31, 2025, 1:23 pm • 11 0 • view
Classic! 🤣
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Good am!☕💚☕ Hope your weekend is going swimmingly.😂
aug 31, 2025, 1:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Beavers are so dang cool
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Apparently doesn’t take much to be smarter than humans….
aug 31, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Sadly true
aug 31, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Another keystone species like wolves and whales, they keep the ecosystem healthy…
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Let beavers be! ✌️
aug 31, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
"bucktoothed national emblem" @secondmentions.bsky.social
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 5 1 • view
Bóbr nie jest kurwa!
aug 31, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't tell Trump
sep 1, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
Beavers are amazing engineers and havre been shown to restore ecosytem's health that has been damaged by human intervention. The level of intelligence of animals is under rated
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 pm • 6 0 • view
It's why beavers are considered a keystone species
aug 31, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
BC beavers get trapped & wetlands get filled. @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social No BC species at risk act‼️ MOE Heyman fought/won in court to kill Fed endangered species. BCNDP SR Orcas extinction by: -starvation -coal T2 expansion/pollution -strikes/noise/emissions via exponential fossil fuel tankers
aug 31, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes! Bring the beavers back to USA and all America will bloom! :-) The beaver saves the wildlife, the ground water and only do good! Farmers need the water! :-)
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Im surprised the don't have any beaver in the us. I wonder if the people living there screwed with nature way to mush compared to other countried because in europe we have a tons of them heck there are a few near my house down hill.
aug 31, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They do have beavers but not in the millions they used to have before the Euriopean settelers arrived for the gold rush beginning in 1848. The European settelers killed millions of beavers fot the fur. Later wetlands were removed for farming... it's a tricky issue!
sep 1, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
I thought this was common knowledge? Didn't they help stabilise yellowstone with the reintroduction of the wolves?
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 2 0 • view
There are *lots* of examples of this in wildlife: bison in Yellowstone, wolves in Yellowstone, gophers on Mt. St. Helens...
aug 31, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't tell Trump or he will pay for every Beaver is killed, like the grey wolves.
sep 1, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
They’re also terribly effective at derailing trains by washing out the track and have been routinely dynamited.
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
There's an excellent documentary about this on YouTube. They also help to contain wildfires by keeping vegetation and soil saturated.
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting. Makes sense
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
In summary: Humans get out of the way, and leave the beavers alone to cook 🦫✌🏽
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Duh, indigenous peoples have known this for centuries.
aug 31, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Our beaver engineers work non-stop in France to restore rivers. To repair the destruction caused by the recalibration and dredging carried out during the ‘remembrement’ of the 50s and 60s. Local authorities in France are working by adding wood to rivers, just like the beavers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
👏
aug 31, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
The beaver in that preview picture looks so locked in and ready.
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Greetings from Beaverton, Oregon yes, still a home to actual beavers!
aug 31, 2025, 1:34 pm • 26 1 • view
I used to live there! Hiked along the waterways and loved seeing their little teeth marks all over young trees. Saw once scurrying into the bushes as we passed. Beaverton is beautiful
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
It really is, we both love living here ! I often hike along the waterways too 🙌 Beavers are so shy! They swim out sometimes around twilight.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Greetings, eh!
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 7 0 • view
Beavers fight fire and drought, it’s been known well before we all came to this continent
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 3 1 • view
Just don’t cross over the border they might be arrested.
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
😂
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It's what they do, we all know that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Beavers make North America really really great. No finer sentient altruistic engineering found anywhere else. Any remediation of the environment must have them at the nexus of recovery/healing. They are the giver/provider of life. Replenish rivers, streams, lakes and aquifers. A BEST PRACTICE
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Beavers can flood hundreds of acres, it’s not good situation.
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 pm • 1 0 • view
that may be the better situation
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
You're just plain wrong. Beaver ponds sequester millions of gallons of water, protecting areas from drought. In areas where beavers are allowed to do their thing, the ecosystem is far healthier than areas where they've been eradicated. Watch "Leave it to Beavers" on PBS. This isn't new science.
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
Sometimes... If they build dams too near houses, it can result in flooding them.
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
This is yet an example of humans being surprised that nature can manage perfectly well if just LEFT ALONE. Humans go in, disturb the natural order by adding new species and killing off the native ones. And is suprised the ecosystems are destroyed.
aug 31, 2025, 1:20 pm • 5 0 • view
I knew they were habitat engineers but was truly gobsmacked by the gorgeous landscape they'd created at Knepp rewilding project - Sussex Everglades
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The findings add weight to facts known for centuries. Fixed it
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 pm • 10 1 • view
Thank you!
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, yes, yes!!!! Beavers know what they're doing, far better than humans. The beaver works WITH the environment, instead of just trying to conquer it! Smart little guys! It's about time, we appreciate just how smart beavers are!
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Idaho has known this for decades, it's why we air dropped beavers into the back country.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Hopefully at very low altitude.
aug 31, 2025, 1:47 pm • 5 0 • view
They had parachutes. Not kidding. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_...
aug 31, 2025, 3:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Back in 1948!
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
🫶👍
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Beavers are amazing creatures and will do this as long as man doesn't screw things up and destroy their habitat.
sep 1, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
i wonder what the beavers think of those concrete monstrosities we humans build without any attention to the ecosystems they destroy
aug 31, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Frustrated in indigenous
aug 31, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
What a blessing these little fellas are. We have them in the anna branch waterway but they are under threat from local farmers due to unwanted flooding of fields for hay production but I hear them complain of dry soils and small crops. Strange paradox. Some don't see the benefits only the problems.
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
During the covid activity, when we were all hunkered down, Saskatoon became enamored with a family of beavers on the south Saskatchewan river. They're really amazing creatures. Community Feature: Mike Digout | CPAWS Saskatchewan share.google/zMvE1QV3VF8r...
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
There are so many photos of our South Saskatchewan cuties!🦫
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm familiar! 😉
aug 31, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Duh 🙄🤣
aug 31, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Buck-tooth waterbilly's
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This is an overstatement. An experiment in the ‘60s showed that beavers will bury a speaker broadcasting the sound of rushing water until it can’t be heard. They don’t look around and decide where to build a dam, they instinctively respond to the sound of moving water.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m from Beaverton, Oregon, and they are virtually extinct there. Go figure?
aug 31, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Thought that everyone knew that already. Beaver, Wolf, Bear they help a healthy ecosystem. Humans just have to admire and respect them, for tdoing all that work.
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
No way! Nature knows more than humans? Who would have thought.
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 4 0 • view
But what about the trees they leave downed? They only take the branches off the top after felling a tree. The rest just lays there forever rotting away.
aug 31, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
That, too, is important to the ecosystem! The felled tree becomes a more accessible shelter for native insect species and ground-dwelling fauna. The rotting is also beneficial, as fungi will break down the tree, as opposed to being wholly removed. It is part of a nutrient cycle
aug 31, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
The remaining wood can be burned for heating, as it will rot if left there anyway.
sep 1, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Nature is the greatest engineer. We humans stupidly work against it to our peril.
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 pm • 14 0 • view
The water keepers
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
they are keystone critters
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Indeed.
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
The questions to most of our modern day catastrophes, were answered by nature eons ago. Yellowstone was reshaped by wolves. Mt. St Helens by ground dwellers. It's an important lesson.
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Nature, if we pay attention, has solutions to most of the environmental issues we face. Be like the Beaver.
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Wildfires are part of the natural processes of regeneration in an ecosystem and some pyrophytic plants like Eucalyptus, Banksia, Lodgepole pine and Giant Redwood, benefit from occasional fires clearing an area. Beavers are natural methods of controlling wildfires. youtu.be/poOISKZFG9s
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 7 0 • view
Was there ever any doubt?
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
No!
aug 31, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Has already been proven to be true.
aug 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't tell Trump. He'll insist on shooting them.
aug 31, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Another manufactured threat to national security!
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 1 • view
Reintroducing them back to places in England. Much to the annoyance of local farmers. But sod ‘em.
aug 31, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
nothing like a fat wet beaver 😉
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Beavers: Release the world engine
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Nice!
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
All of gods creatures were created with preservation in mind.
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Go Canadians!
aug 31, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Like humans?
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool, cool, cool. Scientists just discovered something that natives have known for centuries and centuries.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 8 0 • view
Bingo
aug 31, 2025, 3:58 pm • 4 0 • view
When you can't get humans to take care of the environment, call in the beavers.
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 1:37 pm • 9 1 • view
It’s a Canadian thing! ❤️🤍🇨🇦🤍❤️
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
We just need to let them cook.
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
And they thought I was crazy! bsky.app/profile/box-...
aug 31, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Imagine life without beavers
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
maga: guided by jewish space lasers
aug 31, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
SMDH. MTG is a racist space cadet.
aug 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Murdering such animals changes the landscape?
aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
If only humans could learn from their mistakes!
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
💕
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
😂🤣😂 perfect!!!
aug 31, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I've always been pro-beaver.
aug 31, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
A healthy beaver population is essential for a balanced ecosystem. Where beavers are indigenous of course.
aug 31, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately they’re returning the Netherlands to its natural state (mostly underwater)
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
They're the greatest!
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a place here in Canada who created a pastry!
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
TRUST THE BEAVERS
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
If we humans would stop destroying their habitats & killing them, we would be astounded by all the benefits the animal kingdom brings to this planet...
aug 31, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait, you mean mother nature knows what she is doing? Next, you'll tell me that having predators, like wolves, in the wild makes the prey and plants healthier. Don't be crazy.
aug 31, 2025, 2:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Nature does fine on her own.
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
❤️🙏😁 THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD JESUS CHRIST, SO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAVED IN JESUS 💗 🙏, AND DO NOT EAT ANY MEAT RIGHT NOW, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED💔🥺
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Who did not know this?
aug 31, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
But yeah We need way more beavers 🤓
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re responsible for filling most of our natural aquifers - then they were hunted almost to extinction…we suck.
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 17 0 • view
We suck beyond that reason, especially the unmellanined.
sep 1, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Desperation makes people assholes.
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
So does racism and misogyny.
aug 31, 2025, 6:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Desperate to make those beaver hats and coats for the English?
aug 31, 2025, 3:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Bro no species was hunted to extinction out of desperation that’s just stupid propaganda you are willfully believing
aug 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty sure that you have no idea as to the level of hunger that once existed.
aug 31, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty sure neither do you
aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
If you say so, Karen.
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I do say so ya fucking dick
aug 31, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Poor Karen. No one cares what you think.
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
As they should, im just some fucking white dude. But you’re a dick.
aug 31, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
No one cares what you think. You're just another lazy idiot.
aug 31, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Great post
sep 1, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Now the Big Oil will target them too?
aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Fire control. :)
aug 31, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Every living creature adds to the environment except humans
aug 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
we know humans aren't doing it.
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
i find it weird that people cannot figure out that every living thing on this planet has a purpose to perpetuate the ecosystem and life. Of course most humans are the only ones thinking we are not connected to anything and actively live as parasites on a host. There is only one earth. There are no
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 0 • view
other hosts to attach ourselves to. Humans are planet killers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I personally have always liked beavers Just saying
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They create wetlands where they wouldn't be. It absolutely would be a fire deterrent. It won't work now because some developer will bitch loud enough with a handful of cash to get a politician to change any law necessary.
aug 31, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Beavers are amazing.
aug 31, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
This isn't new research at all. In 2014, the PBS documentary "Leave it to Beavers" showed how they are a keystone species that mitigates drought and helps create a healthy ecosystem.
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 4 0 • view
They turn a forested creek valley into a swamp full of fallen trees. If those trees were in danger of burning, that's a good thing. Before the New World, Europe got its beaver pelts from Ukraine.
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Those swamps are wetlands that provide habitats and help mitigate flooding, too.
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
As a boy scout in the Rockies of Colorado, I did see a beaver looking down his arm at a 6-inch (or,so) stick that he was holding up against an aspen grove next to a stream ... Another beaver (his wife?) was gnawing some notes on a wood chunk ... I didn't mean to bother 'em - they did wave ...
aug 31, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Distinguished and polite.
aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I just walked by one on trail other night and they are amazing.😍
aug 31, 2025, 1:15 pm • 3 0 • view
There is not enough beavers in this world to re route Trumps waterways anymore........... now its straight down the catheter
aug 31, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Animals are way more in tune with nature than people will ever be
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Nature knows bedt
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought that was already a given.
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 pm • 8 0 • view
Actually though, I thought it was pretty self evident that beavers know what they’re doing within their ecosystem, far better than we do.
aug 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
More recognition!
aug 31, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
The modest, hardworking beaver is the perfect symbol for Canada.
aug 31, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why we love beavers. Not the cutest animals on the planet, just industrious and polite.
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view