Re-introducing Beaver on the Escalante River Watershed in Utah

[@ronward3949]

One beaver( Castor canadensis) is great, but it can take two to raise a family. Witnessing a bank lodge beaver in Yankton, SD. I personally gleaned year- long exposure to a family, who I witnessed feed, nurse, and on occasions witness the pair together as busy as a family can be. Feeding on Fremont cottonwoods while simultaneously nursing her kits sounding like babies naturally. I saw her come in nervously with limb, she seemed good with me, submerged, mysteriously entered lodge and heard the action. Not only did they always capture my attention, I learned to fish from nearby woody structure, Spring bringing them into spawn. All aspects of their lifestyles seemed keenly suited for this family life, where local shores, deciduous sprout shooting trees are aided in some forms of propagation by the beavers also. Wood ducks ( Aix sponsa ) had a local cavity nest in an accompanying cottonwood stand and another local resident. Finding cavities can be a test for this Native bird. Beavers in this area store woody forage materials under the ice for winter, they stimulate shoot formation, and all this woody debris is sustenance for the myriad of Mayflies hatching, cottonwood silk, and all those tangible memories. Point being, caves, alcoves, large stumps, can be used as strata for living arrangements of Beaver family including a beaver lodge or bank style which could be a cave, underlying roots of large trees, or other bank habitat that allows for escape cover, deeper water column for escape and survival purposes.

[@sohowsoon6652]

beavers are angels in fur coats

[@steveperreira5850]

It’s amazing it has taken this long with a goddamn government to re-introduce beavers. Most of the bureaucrats are so fucking stupid. It’s good to see some smart ones like this lady, she explains things clearly and concisely for ordinary people to understand how important this is to get the beavers back in the water sheds. I live in California. Our bureaucrats are so ridiculously stupid, they don’t understand anything. Mentally retarded would be a complement for these jackasses. The entire sierra Nevada mountains used to be teaming with beavers, Now there are very few. The stupid bureaucrats thought that there was never beavers on the west side of the sierra Nevada in spite of all the overwhelming evidence.

[@aron8949]

one day, i'll buy nevada land 160 acres at a time, i'll restore the flood plains and arroyos with willow and other species, and ill introduce the beaver.

[@NDwhITeBoYZ]

I hope so

[@thuringervonsausage5232]

Beaver, most beneficial Rodent, Habitat maker.

[@devleigh]

Love this! makes me want to move back to UT to be apart of this change

[@jonathanwilliams6442]

Beavers are natures water purification experts

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Good work your doing ,

[@eamonnbarry6530]

Fantastic work. Keep it up.

[@mojave7025]

I love these Earth Science videos.

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Great to see this happening. Thx

[@user-bs3fh7xn2s]

I visited a creek in a canyon Utah where beaver had entered . All the trees in the canyon floor had been felled by the beaver... it was jaw dropping! I've never seen anything like it. Complete devastation. Be careful what you wish for....

[@christopherburnham1612]

I always liked beavers,😉

[@EcoFlight]

so do we 🤗

[@looking8030]

Wonder how they are going 9 years on

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Beaver ! Huh. Who would of thought we could use beaver for riparian mgt

[@rogerdubarry8505]

Natural sequence farming

[@leedza]

for free.. People don't realise how lucky they are. If beavers were native to all continents would think twice about putting them in degraded river systems across the world.

[@spockspock]

Go Beavs!