Creeks and beaver ponds are found in every mountain basin of the state. Most can be located on national forest maps, and many are described in various fishing guides.

The ponds we are talking about are mostly beaver-made. And beavers have a wholly different idea of what's important when they make a pond. For Mother Nature, ponds are for creatures.

U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist John Jakubowski, left, ... “In the (beaver) ponds, the water slows down so the coho don’t have use as much energy to stay in place, ...

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 ...

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 activity provide homes for countless species ...

"You see this a lot when beavers create these massive wetland areas, which are all of a sudden, extremely productive - you've got a ton of amphibians," said Stella, whose lab also documented that over ...

Beavers: The Engineers of the Forest. Back from the brink of extinction, the beavers of Massachusetts are a crucial component of a healthy ecosystem. Jennifer Weeks March 15, 2010. Beavers have ...

Fox and coyote had circled the beaver lodge on the side of the pond, and something had even made a half-hearted attempt to dig a hole through the thick fortress of intertwined sticks before giving ...

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.

Viewing tip: Walk 0.1-mile back down parking access road to Beaver Pond Trail. Path loops through forest where pygmy nuthatches nest in pines, then over ridge and around pond.

Columnist John Schandelmeier explains how beavers survive Alaska winters and why they are important, both historically and ecologically.

STRATFORD — The beavers have been saved. The Roosevelt Forest Commission has ordered an end to lethal trapping in the 400-acre sylvan enclave that has attracted a colony of the dam- and lodge ...