MISSOULA, Mont. — Six AmeriCorps members will be deployed on lands in the Blackfoot Watershed this summer and fall as part of ...

This summer marks another season of meaningful outdoor work for local teens, and with it, the launch of a new weekly “Nature ...

The beavers were gone just as abruptly as they'd arrived. A few years ago, an industrious pair of beavers moved into a stretch of the Rio Quemado near the historic Santuario de Chimayó. Over several ...

Biologists from the Arizona Game and Fish Department have been testing out a new protocol when relocating beavers. And now at ...

Sometimes called the original "ecosystem engineers," beavers and the techniques they use are guiding conservationists in New Mexico to protect scarce water resources. Defenders of Wildlife is working ...

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

SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna University has been awarded a nearly $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to evaluate the efficacy of beaver dam analogs in improving the health of urban ...

Susquehanna University has been awarded nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of ...

Goldfarb spoke with Warner at the Mountain Words Festival in Crested Butte. They discussed threats to conservation, reasons ...

Man-made beaver dams, also known as beaver dam analogs, are designed to mimic the form and function of natural dams, and can help attract the animals to certain stream stretches, the foundation ...

One tactic is installing “beaver dam analogs” in streams; the manmade structures mimic natural beaver dams and end up storing water.

Beaver dam analogs are woody structures made with local materials such as willow branches attached to vertical posts pounded into a creek-bottom that mimic the natural work of beavers.