One fine morning in early June, I set out with colleagues to conduct breeding-bird surveys along a high-elevation mountain ...

In remote areas of the Warm Springs Reservation and sometimes far off it, restoration crews are rebuilding creeks with an unlikely partner: the beaver. Rather than relying on large equipment, the ...

Utah State University ecologist Nick Bouwes says beavers may be key to effective river restoration efforts. He and colleagues detail a watershed-scale experiment in Nature's Scientific Reports. Credit ...

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 ...