Could ‘Smokey Beaver’ help fight wildfires? | Oregon Field Guide

[@tthappyrock368]

We need beaver now more than ever!

[@suzettecalleja3122]

Excellent. Glad to see people realizing how necessary the Beavers are.

[@alexamerling79]

We need more Beavers.

[@mamazalama]

This video brought me so much joy and happiness 🥰as I watched all the work that beavers do! But it is frustrating too, because we humans cause so much damage to the environment, including that which beavers have done with their amazing dams, beaver homes and waterways. Beavers are essentially mother Nature's genius engineers, as they attempt to "repair" all the damage done to their environment, sometimes even building ways to stop fires from progressing through our wetlands. ♥🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🤗🦫! Long live our beaver monarchs!👑🦫👑!

[@AustinSPTD1996]

I already knew the importance of beavers as a keystone species for creating habitat, but this was quite fascinating. Besides learning about what real healthy streams look like, beaver activities serving as buffers against wildfires has so many ecological and utilitarian benefits. I hope a day will come where the work of beavers can be better understood and integrated for nature and people to benefit. :)

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Humans Need Beavers. I'm from Corvallis Oregon. Home of the Oregon State Beaver's. It's such a underappreciated, underutilized aspect to our ecosystems, to their health, stability, and way to utilize the water in most efficient manners that otherwise get wasted if it just runs away and sometimes back underground if not used.

[@shirleyandrews1152]

Go Beavers🎉

[@jeromeclaessen3921]

That beaver animation was awesome 👌

[@theTylerMorale]

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how often highway and roadway systems are built very close to rivers. It makes me wonder how that impacts the delicate ecosystems by rivers.

[@JessiJHall]

I was in Selma when the kalamiopsis forest burned, it was one of the worst fires I ever seen ‼️

[@pauldow1648]

We are in competition with beaver We are on same side ! It's a good thing ecology came along to help us look at ourselves.

[@patriciaschuster1371]

I love PBS! So fascinating.

[@alanmaag6038]

Yes to the professionals, I hope they thrive. Ree

[@ronward3949]

Both Species do actively maintain localized water levels so slower waters create the conditions of escape and cover both species need to survive.

[@fredthegamerschrarder7716]

I love these videos keep them coming

[@ronward3949]

Bank beavers specialize in using bank structure to den, shelter, attend to young, and generate onsite productivity through their selected use of those Plant Associations available sometimes in mountain lakes and respective outflows, to the larger riverine systems high volume of winter flows which often destroy dams.

[@doyleswearingen6262]

It takes Beaver engineering to create a Duck pond!

[@bjwashndry]

lol

[@johnd1655]

a beaver dam and a stagnant pond are not comparable.

[@wesleybennett6186]

Leave it to Beaver! LOL

[@mattsavage]

"concerned the pond could grow and flood the culvert downstream"... The problem isn't the beaver or pond, its the culvert. How is there still a culvert on a stream that size? The state has grants for private parties and local municipalities to replace culverts with proper fish passage.

[@matthewwelsh294]

Super Beaver here to save the day

[@franks4973]

Glad that scientists finally figured out what is obvious to us landowners. Lol

[@commercialelectrician133]

Great video very interesting

[@carolinejayes157]

Well done Jacob.

[@ronward3949]

Castor canadensis broadens the water profile in stream and some riverine channels, along with common muskrats (Ondatra zybethicus), are riparian specialists utilizing deeper water for escape from natural predators for both Species. Instream or wetland habitats usually include cattails, willows, Alnus Species, and other onsite rooted perennials persist feeding the beavers and muskrats as yhey utilize these wetland specialists.

[@shirleyandrews1152]

Smoky the Bear was a bad idea😪it allowed underbrush to grow rampantly. Native Americans were told to stop burning the underbrush which was done every year for hundreds of years. But the govmt knew better🙀😤Now look at the mess we are in. (I’m a Ca Paradise “Camp Fire” survivor)

[@CAM-fq8lv]

Beavers are the answer. Let nature solve our problems.

[@lisawhitehall1870]

💙

[@bonnieprice9482]

Agreed they prepare the damage humans and cows do ....!

[@Jdksub]

Could Smokey they beaver stop lasers and remote controlled nanoparticles ? 🤣

[@hankb27]

Lay off the stuff

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

I don't know, but they can take a pounding.

[@johnpassmore5421]

Lots of good information, and most of of it seems correct, but beavers are classified as fur bearing animals in Oregon, and not nuisance animals, unless they are causing damage, and as such have significant legal protections. There seems to be some good science here, and for the most part I believe it, but I am by nature sceptical of anyone who doesn't understand the current status of something but thinks they know how to improve it.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Are they protected in any way? They're not, so you're nitpicking a distinction that doesn't exist.

[@kennylund3821]

You lost me at climet change.

[@lisawhitehall1870]

💙🎉

[@colleeneggertson2117]

Beavers help with drought, flooding, wildfires and fish. They create biodiversity. They can be annoying in the wrong place.

[@marcusm8009]

Let's not build on wetlands!

[@robertmanella528]

In the old days, we would go to the hardware store and buy a couple of sticks of 40& extra dynamite and take our 12 ga. Shotguns and no more beavers!! Beavers can stay when they pay the real estate taxes!!! Until then, destroy every single beaver dams!!!!

[@antoniescargo4158]

Why do you wear a filthy mask when you are outside?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Because they're working _with_ a film crew who travel around