Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue

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There were once 400 million beavers in North America until trapping nearly wiped them out.

Miles O’Brien travels from a Wyoming ranch to a Minnesota lab tracing the rebound of these industrious rodents. Rancher Tom Chant is a “beaver believer” after seeing his dry and dusty creek turn lush once beaver dams moved in, proving nature’s original engineers may be the West’s best hope against drought.

Emily Fairfax, Eco-hydrologist, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota

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