...I wish we would call it urban sprawl into beaver habitat and not beaver in urban environments... there were beaver before the houses and farms were ever there :( Such fantastic information thank you for sharing.

Thanks so much for having us!

Thankyou Beaver Institute! I love our PNW Sea Otters.

I expect this is old hat for y'all, but in the off chance nobody's seen it, I think the role of grassy vegetation root networks enabling aquifer replenishment really deserve equal emphasis in what sure starts to sound like the three-legged stool of cyclic ecosystem replenishment: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kISznJamfNKZoqc Beaver - Keep local water local Grasses and general vegetation - Get some of the water into the ground and off the surface, protect the soil and bacterial colonies, and feed the beaver (keep the water) Fauna - Recycle the grasses and enable the cyclic lifecycle of vegetation renewal through gastric/locomotive tillage There's a more regional/global role of the beaver forage (trees) actually contributing to regional and global rainfall with *terpenes now connected to cloud seeding, but clearly outside the scope of this micro/local research on crop rotation and livestock health. Obviously you can't have a healthy global water cycle if the local water cycle is wrecked. Kudos for what sounds like a very well controlled and thought-out research effort into the ways to graze. Thank you for your sensitivity in how to frame and present data to farmers--there is such a tapestry of cultural tradition there that it's a painfully emotional process no matter what you do.. Farmers' decisions are linked to the literal life and death of their farms, their farms are the beating hearts of their families, and any remote possibility that they've made a choice or series of choices that didn't have the absolute best possible outcome will be, at *best*, intensely emotional. Because who wouldn't make the best decisions for themselves and theirs? I am deeply appreciative of your very real effort and consideration that is plainly evident.

CalFire should bend every available effort towards identifying and emplacing beaver across the state

horrible fucking audio, how do you expect someone to watch this you dumbasses?

I want to lease run bison in NW Arkansas and I would love to increase the beaver population here! Thank you for the important work. I may end up taking your class on a beaver business!

Excellent presentation Chris. Want to get a malt at Bridgeman's?

Thank you for these important contributions to getting back to native landscapes. I am a Native plant forager in Arkansas and am looking into broader landscape restoration techniques and it is quite obvious that I alone can't pick every invasive or cut them back to slow their spread. Knowing that beavers are effective at this and also just belong around our water ways is great! I will do what I can to inform others about their effect on landscapes!

Simply amazing. Grateful you all shared such valuable information. What really caught my attention as a computer modeling guy was "how do beavers create clouds?"--what a lovely question. Clouds generated from expanding biomass in arid regions would be a complicated equation but there are water surface area calculations I believe could be applied. Another aspect of the modeling equation should include expanding forests in places like The Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah as I believe there are also equations that can applied that refer to how much cloud nucleation is associated with an area of forest. NOAA already has extensive wind and air moisture modeling--which is a lot of computational work that is already done. I do computer modeling and don't have a pedigree in statistics but I work enough with them to be comfortable talking at fairly in depth levels of abstract equations. This certainly seems like a multi field problem but imagine reducing the drought strain in the Midwest by using beavers to bring back forests in what are now arid lands...while also addressing Navajo Nation water scarcity issues. I found beavers are a simple solution to several challenging environmental problems and it seems the most complicated part is Permitting.

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Absolutely love the video Mike shared (at about 22:00) about the leader, the follower, and all the people joining in. What a delight, and what a great point! Whatever point you want to make in this world,, make it fun🙂❤️.

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Too bad this has no audio

I hope it goes well with the new Beaver program in CA.

Boss called wildlife "services" and they came out and drowned the beavers. I was sick. Be careful who you call for "help" if you think wildlife is causing you imaginary problems. Wildlife "services" kill millions every year of inconvenient wildlife.

This is awesome. Great work!

There was a town in Maine with an emergency reservoir in case of fires, it was leaking and needed to be fixed. The mayor brought in a contractor and it was estimated to cost ten thousand+ to fix. A beaver moved in and plugged the leak. Save a small a ton of money.

I see many supports installed incorrectly, seen this system fail much too often

Fascinating help

Thank you!!! There are so many that could benefit from proper beaver management, I will send this to my wife immediately.

Do you have enough native fish, frogs, salamanders, native birds, etc. to keep the mosquitoes in check?

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What a fascinating, wonderful video. Only had time to watch half before my boss interrupted me but will definitely watch the rest at home.

That is so cool.

He talks very pleasantly.

Excellent, thought-provoking talk. Thanks.

Can’t get enough of these talks. Thank you for publishing. It’s great to hear about projects in different regions.

Awesome perspectives!!

The Earth is cooler with the atmos/GHGs/albedo not warmer. To perform as advertised the GHGs require “extra” energy upwelling from the surface radiating as a black body. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnvMm6ptYr56Y7c The kinetic heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmos molecules render that scenario impossible. No greenhouse effect, no GHG warming, no man/CO2 driven climate change or Gorebal warming. Who is first to censor/delete my science? You or Google?

Fantastic, thanks!

This design sort of functions, but there are some issues, the exit velocity from the box and the slope of the pipe at the upstream end, in particular. There are better designs, but they involve more costly construction and installation. NOAA Fisheries has produced one. In general, beaver pond levelers do not pass fish effectively.

Apparently this passes beavers, but not fish.

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Thank you so much for posting this, it's wonderful to see the evolution of Skip's thinking on this!

Why don't they dam up the slot in the box?