Beaver ponds increase carbon storage by trapping sediments and maintaining open water areas that eventually drain to meadows, creating habitat for fish, frogs, turtles, and other creatures.

Read it "What Goes on inside a Beaver Pond?" by Becky Cushing Gop. Published by Story Publishing. 48 pages. $18.99. Set in Mass Audubon's 1,000-acre Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, the book, by ...

From the outside, a beaver dam looks like a heap of sticks, but a closer look reveals the insane amount of effort and detail that goes into building each structure. At a rate of five feet per day ...

Still anglers persist in the quest for beaver dam removal. Finally, in an attempt to settle the question, the University of Michigan did a study on the west branch of the Maple River — a 16-mile ...