High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and ...

Beavers naturally build dams that slow water, spread it across the landscape, and help damaged rivers recover. On this project, people copied that same idea by creating beaver-style structures to ...

For Canadians, the beaver is more than a buck-toothed rodent — it's a national emblem, etched on nickels and central to the country's origin story. Now, a new study from the U.S. suggests this ...

Two Eurasian beavers were released in England six years ago. In that time, they completely transformed the ecosystem.

A family of beavers are constructing a metropolis above Memorial Park, including an expansive dam that’s creating a pool upstream. Photo by Patrick Bilow/Stowe Reporter This story by Patrick Bilow was ...

When most people think of beavers, they picture animals chewing through trees or building dams across streams. But recent research shows that these animals are doing something far more important: ...

On a warm spring day, mud-splattered volunteers mimicked beavers as they stacked coyote brush and soil into a dam with the goal of catching more water in San Luis Obispo’s Walters Creek. Water only ...

Beavers (Castor canadensis) are widely recognized as ecosystem engineers, building dams that reshape water flow and alter the physical structure of rivers and streams. There is a scientific consensus ...

At least three beaver dams spanning Dry Creek in different spots between the Creekside Golf Course and Claus Road were spotted for the first time recently. Michael Hart, a volunteer with the ...

EVERETT — The air filled with the smell of cedar as volunteers weaved branches through wooden poles in North Creek near McCollum Park in Everett. Volunteers from Crane Aerospace & Electronics worked ...