Creating Wetlands: Nature’s Water Architects When beavers build dams, they don’t just make ponds; they create wetlands, some of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth. Wetlands formed by beaver ...

As the sun sets over a forest stream, a beaver family gets to work. For millions of years, these large rodents with bright orange teeth and a flat paddle-shaped tail have been reshaping landscapes by ...

Beaver hotspots The beaver dam's Arctic origins Paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski will never forget her first visit to the Beaver Pond fossil site on Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian High Arctic.

But how best to assist the buck-toothed architects? Corwin knew that beaver infrastructure—their sinuous dams, sprawling ponds, and spidery canals—is often so epic it can be seen from space.

Beaver ponds are found throughout the Colorado High Country. Toss a lightweight fly rod in your vehicle and hit some High Country roads. Any short hike along a mountain stream will lead to a beaver ...

Beaver ponds contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient that can become a pollutant when too much is present. Land managers need to know if beaver ponds are storing or releasing nitrogen, but ...

He found that the methylmercury levels in the water of beaver ponds were very low, whereas the levels in the sediment— the soil and sand at the bottom and around the ponds—were very high. This ...

The Beaver Pond site also holds bones of Dipoides, an extinct beaver species that lived around 3.9 million years ago. It was about two-thirds as large as a modern beaver and had less powerful jaws.

The dam even provides the beaver with sources of food. The forest flooded by the dam is a safe place for the beaver to forage. It will eat the cattails and other plants that grow in the still water of ...

In order to survive the winter months, a beaver must build a lodge in a pond. The lodge will be somewhat conical in its design and it will have one large chamber inside.