Beavers helping the Central Coast against drought, wildfires and flooding

Beavers helping the Central Coast against drought, wildfires and flooding

By Dylan Foreman Click here for updates on this story     California (KSBY) — One unique animal with a large task in the health of our local creek and river systems. Along the Central Coast and the state, beavers have become a vital source of assistance in protecting against some of California’s biggest natural threats. Beavers have been busy guarding our landscape from drought, wildfires and even flooding, Atascadero resident Ann Colby has come…

Leave it to beavers: Restoring beaver populations helps our environment

POWELL — If you think the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's beaver translocation work has been all about conserving the species, you are only half right.

At this year's general meeting the beaver manager of the Federal Nature Conservation, Berit Arendt, presented the beaver as "a water manager of a special kind". With her PowerPoint lecture, she showed the newcomer in our landscape as a sympathetic animal with a sense of family and extraordinary ability to regulate the water balance for himself in its surroundings - also for the benefit of other animals. To mitigate flood formation and water rete…

Beaver population to grow at Trossachs site - Beaver Trust

Loch Ard Forest is set to become home to an additional pair of beavers.  Working with the Beaver Trust, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) released the pair into a small lochan with good areas of wet woodland around the edge of the water and where there are currently no beavers present. The FLS managed site – sitting within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park – was assessed and surveyed by both the Beaver Trust and FLS and identified as pr…