Conservationists Could Gather River Restoration Tips From Beavers
Photo credit: dailyinvention / Creative Commons When engineers are called in to restore degraded streams and rivers, the focus is typically on reestablishing flow. This requires the dismantling of old damns, dredging, and the rebuilding of valley bottoms. These human engineers, a new study suggests, would be better off taking advice from natures’ own landscape-altering builders: beavers. The pools and ponds created by
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Conservationists Could Gather River Restoration Tips From Beavers
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