Do you remember that time that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game dropped a bunch of beavers from an airplane and they parachuted into Chamberlain Basin? That was in 1948. The beavers took a look around at their new home and said, "We got a lot of work to do here." And boy, did they ever work! The beavers and their descendants built dams and transformed the area along Baugh Creek into a series of ponds and wetlands, which saved the local flora and fauna from the dangers of drought. Satellite imagery shows that the areas where beavers live are more lush and green than parts of Idaho with no beavers.
In 2018, the Sharps Fire blazed through Baugh Creek. In the aftermath, the picture above was taken. You can see that the creek has its own firebreak, built completely by beavers damming up the water. With the data we now have, ecologists are convinced that bringing in more beavers to other creeks would be a long-term strategy for dealing with wildfires and drought. Read what Idaho's beavers have done since they were resettled at YaleEnvironment360. -via Damn Interesting
(Image credit: Fairfax and Whittle)
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Ah yes. Man has discovered that nature, when left alone, is a pretty good system. But what humans did before we learned better is what will kill us all.
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Parabeavers! Very nice, today they would just use a Helicopter!.
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That being said, no such thing as doing something and it has no downsides at all. I'm positive with enough digging youd find downsides to them doing this.
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