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 ...

Project Beaver worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore the large rodents to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Volunteers help release beavers into a creek in February 2025. Project ...

Living with beavers can either be a joy to behold or an enormous pain in the posterior. Peaceful vegetarians with a strong family structure, beavers are best known as nature’s engineers. No other ...

Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the right place, more water can be a big help. Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...

After a hiatus that lasted over a century, beavers are making a comeback on the South Fork of the Crooked River. The Oregon Natural Desert Association, a Bend-based nonprofit, says a beaver family is ...

In 2023, California relocated beavers for the first time in more than seven decades. The state’s wildlife agency partnered with Native American tribes to move beavers from places where they were ...

The Milwaukee beaver population has been reestablishing itself in Milwaukee's rivers. In the last decade, beavers have reemerged in the Milwaukee and Menomonee rivers. The large rodent was extinct ...

I’m often asked, “what good is ‘X’ species,” “or “what can ‘X’ species do for me?” Regarding American beavers from a utilitarian view, the answer is that beavers are key to restoration of stream and ...

A group of beavers reintroduced into their historic Sierra Nevada habitat last year are thriving, reproducing and working fast to strengthen their new homes against droughts and wildfires, state ...