In a capstone project partnership with the Boulder Watershed Collective, Masters of the Environment students study what it means to live alongside beavers Beavers are so much more than nature’s most ...

It’s no accident that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology claim the beaver (Castor canadensis) as their mascots. Renowned engineers, beavers seem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly flooded trees die but remain standing as bare “snags” where birds nest. The diverted streams create complicated interwoven ...

This is the forty-second in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beavers dam streams to create ponds, where they can construct their dome-shaped lodges in the water, keeping predators at a distance. When they create a pond, many other effects follow. Newly flooded ...