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 ...

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

Beaver dams can also improve water quality by reducing sedimentation and removing toxins from the water column. Beavers’ central role in building and maintaining the wetland ecosystems that serve so ...

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.