I have not!

Hmm definitely could be! Hard to say for sure without more details about the landscape setting. But there used to be tons of beavers all over the place and they certainly made a lot of spongy meadows that function like carbon sinks in the western US.

Beavers were up in the Arctic before! Definitely 10k and 8k years ago, and likely more recently than that. They didn’t cause runaway catastrophic warming then, so I’m not overly worried about them doing so now. People, on the other hand….

Beavs can definitely help With flood mitigation. There have been some really cool studies out of Canada and the UK showing that when you have a bunch of beavers in the watershed their dams can reduce the intensity of flood waves significantly, and that most dams won’t even wash out!

I am not sure what the details are actually - the press release was the first I heard that justification for trapping that family of beavers. I know there is a site in CA with some endangered bird that lives by beavers where the land over routinely lethally manages the beavs. Maybe it’s that place?

This tip literally saved me so much time. 🎉

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Absolutely! They’ve helped in similar situations before. For example, beavs moved in pretty fast after the Elwha dam came down and helped restore riparian habitat downstream and manage the sediment flows.