Thanks to their impressive building skills, beavers are a keystone species—an animal whose activities support its entire ...

Beavers have a habit of building dams and burrowing into banks. That behavior can cause flooding and damage to infrastructure ...

Dam building is instinctual in beavers. They build dams to create open water. They need water at least 3 feet deep or more to keep the entrances to their lodges submerged.

Previously installed “beaver deceivers” were successful in driving beavers out of Memorial Park, but they've been building a metropolis upstream, including a dam, a hut and a sizable pond.

A beaver forages in an Oregon stream. Beavers are considered nature's engineers and a new law prohibits trapping beavers on ...

A bill aimed at protecting beavers on more than 100,000 miles of Oregon's waterways passed the state Legislature on June 16.