Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes

[@Theendofeverything7036]

FINALLY beavers are getting RESPECT!

[@thomasperkins7318]

I've admired these marvelous creatures for years. We humans could learn a lot from these virtuous mammals.

[@VesperAegis]

Me too. That Vigliotti is rockin' it.

[@keithbell9348]

We humans can do no better than learn from EVERYTHING in the natural world.

[@allanthomas332]

Leave it to beaver’s they know what they doing

[@keithbell9348]

@@allanthomas332 They must look at us as if we are as dumb as rocks..

[@Drskopf]

The natives knew!! But nobody listened in those years

[@nylirama]

This proves to me once again that there is no nuisances in mother nature. Everything has a very important role. Everything is interconnected even if we don't know how. In my opinion, humans are the only nuisance that keeps messing the planet up over and over again.

[@thomasperkins7318]

Absolutely! Except for cockroaches.😺

[@hlsylsify]

Tell me about it! Absolutely agree with you.

[@michelleredmond4450]

Everything has a purpose on earth 🌎

[@VesperAegis]

We could quibble over cancer and brain tumors, I think.

[@nylirama]

@@thomasperkins7318 I agree 🙂 There are many insects, parasites and others that only seem to have a negative impact but if we eliminate them completely who knows what kind of imbalance would be created.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Yep. Restoring drained wetlands works. It also filters sewage water to crystal clean. Restoring wetlands is key, and beavers are a part of that.

[@rich2583]

You actually think raw sewage is mixing with this water?

[@panorama4962]

Probably not most of the time.... However non-wetland streams tend to be muddy, as they go very fast and erode the river banks. And water from wetlands seeps slowly, and has very little sediments, which actually makes it quite clean.

[@Herbhead369]

It’s funny how people use animals when they need them and dislike them when they don’t

[@007Julie]

Exactly! Humans are horrible, just horrible. We’re the ones who should go extinct not the animals and nature.

[@lucypearlmorgan3115]

True. Here is another question: What will happened when they continue to breed? Remember history does repeat itself!!

[@linda6987]

Not sure who said it “the only use for animals is if they taste good or how they fit. Sad....

[@panorama4962]

It only affects the surrounding of the rivers. Land masses just slightly uphill will remain dry and habitable.

[@sketchimation_shorts]

Goats, beavers, bees. Everything can help the earth more than humans ever will.

[@Joelsellers29]

@@p_aabs we sure don't act like that, look what we've allowed to be done to our home.

[@carolames7624]

Goats, beavers, bees--they are not "things" so they are "everyONE".

[@nicholaslee4669]

@@p_aabs but if we don’t preserve the natural world and admit that nature needs conservation, then we won’t be able to continue our scientific and technological superiority since much of what we have comes from nature in some way, shape, or form.

[@jjn6914]

@pabswish you're conflating intelligence with "better" or "superior". Obviously, look where all that intelligence got us--it's sent us on an expressway to a certain extinction while taking out all the Earth with us. Also, what's the point of 9 billion people for a small handle of more smart people that create resource-heavy anthropocentric conveniences that make us worse off at the end? 9 billion chances and no one's actually made Earth, not human interests, better.

[@josephhoward4697]

@@nicholaslee4669 We need to learn to how balance works. Take some, leave some.

[@brendatenorio5721]

Not only restoring streams, recharging aquifers, filtering water, creating a firewall, providing habitat for other creatures and creating a new more effective flood plan.

[@stevieme8642]

Makes me feel extra good about the beavers that moved into my neighborhood. They're such fascinating critters!

[@codyshi4743]

Some times the best way to find solutions is to look to nature.

[@LouiseGray-sx1dt]

Not “sometimes” - Nature ALWAYS know what she’s doing!! Your own body is natural, part of nature. Your body is an animal!

[@RobertSaxy]

I remember learning about this about a over a decade ago and can’t believe we haven’t done more to bring them back

[@suzanne529]

Another lesson in "Don't mess with Mother Nature". She knows what she is doing!

[@miles5600]

We can help mother nature though

[@praetorianstride5948]

Many people don’t believe that nature is any more than mass. They are dead wrong.

[@blkyogi999]

@@miles5600 help yes… control, no

[@miles5600]

@@blkyogi999 agreed

[@Kim-lc3fv]

I'm so glad beavers are getting Well deserved respect now. 🙂

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

There is a farm near Ashland is using the concepts (with multiple ponds and streams) of what beavers do to create and VERY reliable and healthy ecosystem along with marketable produce in an area that is in drought right now.

[@jashannon]

then they should get beavers

[@qwertylife]

Finally, beavers are being appreciated once again!

[@shortmeister4321]

I've always LOVED beavers and how hard they work, and beautiful they are. I'm so glad to see this!🤗💗

[@chadddrott9627]

I have been teaching wildlife education for 20 years… In that time I have talked about looking more towards wildlife to solve a lot of our planets problems. I mean nature has been relying on the animals to keep everything in balance for millions of years. Glad we are finally turning our blind eye back towards the light.

[@c87kim]

Ofc you have. Teachers always think they right

[@carolames7624]

Humanity isn't fit to exist on planet Earth. We are not "stewards of creation." Rather, the other animals are the REAL stewards of creation! Give them, credit! Support animal rights! Go vegan!

[@linda6987]

Amen!!!!

[@patriciawilson2013]

We’ve used and abused them to near extinction. Now our very lives depend upon them. Too bad we couldn’t see what their usefulness was really for. Hope it isn’t too late. Go Beavers!! ❤️👍🏽👌🏽 😍🥰😊

[@CAM-fq8lv]

Wonderful creatures who just work and work and work, and we benefit. Magical to come across them in the wild. Their damns are engineering wonders.

[@jamesskelton698]

These are the kinds of things we need to be doing, instead of trying to find all the the stuff we do to fight about.

[@Maybe1Someday]

I love beavers, more are needed all over. In Las Vegas for example the storm runoff ravines in the desert can have a BDAs (natural dams) built so when it storms over time it can collect water. Over time creating trees and greenery. Then you can release beavers.

[@aaronpaul06]

I don’t think beavers are the problem in unwanted areas. Humans are on THEIR land.

[@Siddhartha040107]

Like humans, beavers are a keystone species, animals that can create huge changes in the environment. Great news that humans and beavers are teaming up.

[@MrMountainchris]

We are NOT a keystone species! The earth would be much better off without us. We had no business climbing down from the trees in East Africa. That's where the problems started.

[@Siddhartha040107]

@@MrMountainchris good or bad, we still affected the earth in a huge way. that is a keystone species

[@wesleyrodgers886]

We ignore nature at our peril.

[@dia9491]

This is fantastic. We need to look at the animals because they know what to do. There is wisdom in instinct. Wonderful story.

[@katelarouche2835]

A hundred years after turning them all into hats we're finally willing to let them do the job the Creator made them for.

[@uncledogg5156]

Thank you for this story.

[@mimisalvator]

this makes me incredibly happy!

[@robinstevenson6690]

Thank you for doing stories like this! Together, we can save our natural wonders.

[@Houligans]

Might need to ban hunting them for awhile. They seem to be hunted quite a bit in our area.

[@jamessparkman6604]

In my educated opinion we never should’ve hunted them in the first place

[@gabevilla8578]

That animation Fairfax made is ammmmmazing! 🥳🥳She needs her own TikTok page filled with these educational animations🎉

[@christinewelford1842]

We have a pair up by my moms on the river we would get to watch them play and hunt when we would go fishing. They are so cool amd so miss understood animals.

[@Meerkat000]

Loved the stop motion animation!! Just gave me some ideas for my next project !!!

[@richmoves]

Great story! This is another example how all of earth's species are intertwined in terms of dependency and survival. 🌍🧡

[@linda6987]

Well said!

[@missytempleman4793]

They finely used animals and worked together with them in nature. How human of them. Took long enough.

[@desmeisme]

That’s actually pretty amazing

[@BanjoBitty]

"They became a headache to land owners." Ironically the human centric view ends up screwing over everyone, including humans. When we see our true place in the natural world everyone can benefit.

[@pahunter3]

This is another indication that California has needed more dams to retain rain water and snow melt when there are atmospheric rivers bringing heavy rains and snow.

[@Balint-y7s]

We need to work WITH Nature, not against it. Nature already has the solutions, we just need to let it take its course.

[@DebSherr]

Leave it to beavers 🦫 and yet mankind gives animals little credit for intelligence but the animals understand ignorance.

[@tccragun]

Some folks have long believed it better to work with Mother Nature than against her. The times they are a changin’

[@samanthab1923]

Love the dam builders

[@deanvm9158]

A species that we once almost killed to extinction are now doing us a favor... Or let me say, have been doing us a favor, and we just didn't know. I feel sorry for these animals.

[@paulabears7882]

Finally, humans realize nature does know best.

[@deanvm9158]

Isn't it unfair that, when we thought beavers had no use, we killed them almost to extinction and now that we see how they can be useful to us, all of a sudden we adore them? All we humans do is use. We keep using anything that we come across. And when we don't see any use for something anymore, we get rid of it.

[@clebert6655]

Doing this in Idaho as well.

[@FaTCaKeSs1995]

Crazy how they build perfect dam

[@707Anguiano]

It doesn't matter how many things we throw at drought issues. It starts with educating the public about water use.

[@Longhairbaee]

Poor beavers and what they have been through 🥺😢

[@haven_lady675]

Beavers are adorable

[@mikeomolt4485]

Beavers could probably help keeping garden lawns green and frequently watered, . . . . if you don't mind the smell.

[@danielt.3152]

Beavers can work 24X7 for free and create new habitats, we should be using them even more

[@michaelvillarreal1225]

When it comes to adaptation and mitigation efforts we should focus on nature-based solutions

[@RikodiusRex]

Handy dandy beavers!

[@skycat04]

The Colorado River's whole region should be populated by them, and then in a few years there would be far more water in it (and in Lake Powell and Lake Mead).

[@adrianhires6500]

Leave it to beavers 🕶👌

[@evrenmi]

These little creatures are really chill

[@euodiaclitterhouse4726]

They are so tight knit with their families, I hope they keep them together when movin them...

[@willyjilly9684]

If you read this I hope you have a wonderful day today 💙✌

[@desmeisme]

Thank you. You too

[@3in2Art]

Fantastic!

[@matt39581]

I like that we're starting to do this now, but it sort of gives the same impression as a silicon valley startup breathlessly announcing that they've invented something which just turns out to be a bus again

[@shellysmith1037]

Yes, beavers are cool but it seems funny Trout Unlimited in CA. is removing dams at the same time their DNR are letting beavers build them. IE: dams are good, but not your dams, just our dams

[@TheHonestPeanut]

You mean to tell me our environment does better when we don't mess with it? The heck you say.

[@ccggenius]

So... what do things look like further downstream? It's not like this is creating more water, it's just withholding more upriver.

[@elizabethr4107]

Let's go beavers! #MIT

[@biblebasher9364]

Maybe loss of ground water isn't about the climate change, it's about us fast-tracking water runoff to the ocean. I mean, the climate is changing, along with our understanding as we use our hindsight.

[@CHMichael]

Global warming is a great excuse to not talk about local problems we created. ( not arguing the weather isn't changing)

[@panorama4962]

It's probably about both, but restoring water resources will surely help.

[@johnmooney9444]

A sign of hope.

[@richtofenillingroth641]

Beautiful creatures

[@SainteMichele]

leave the beavers alone!!!

[@cm24624]

04:45 The most challenging step will be overcoming NIMBY.

[@A_J502]

NIMBY will doom us all.

[@YakubibnEsau]

What’s NIMBY?

[@A_J502]

@@YakubibnEsau Not In My Back Yard

[@YakubibnEsau]

@@A_J502 thank you!

[@Crmnllmnt]

CBS, Good morning. It's very good that CBS takes on programs that shows us what we're doing to help combat climate change rather than be us to death with climate change is destroying our world. We are humans and we are so smart. We can solve this problem if we can just get the news to support this kind of attitude. Well done

[@afl3733]

This is amazing

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

Shouldn't have been hunting and killing them for over a century

[@shellysmith1037]

Lets not pick on native americans.

[@ReviewBoard-uy5nv]

Amazing

[@ronaldharris6569]

The numbers of beavers that were trapped and skinned will never be known

[@victorlopez-eq3yl]

Perfect

[@pins44]

I LOVE THIS.

[@samfilmkid]

I guess beavers are going to become a cottage industry now!

[@michaelbagley9116]

One thing that they are teaching is that if you allow all the water to flow away. You lose the water for your needs. So little things like having a higher border on your lawn and letting the water soak into the local soil and aquifer would make a tremendous difference. Special kind of concrete and asphalt to allow water to flow through.

[@davidabbett7011]

Slowly, ever so slowly, we are waking up to the reality how we belong to a symbiotic “system”.

[@MrMountainchris]

Once again proving, nature was perfect before we ruined it.

[@duncanbleak3819]

Beavers, more beneficial to the planet than humans!!! What a surprise.

[@vango7499]

Lots of beavers by me in . Georgia

[@LIONTAMER3D]

the second-hardest working animal on the planet!

[@gglen2141]

That is really interesting. So many of these discoveries are such "duh" moments.Eco systems that have evolved over millions of years are disrupted over centuries by humans and then 'rediscovered' by humans. Better late than never.

[@esthermcdonald2297]

Wonderful

[@Brenda-qw7lb]

Everything is put here for a reason.

[@mikejohnson3338]

Very confusing title: *Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes* _They use beavers to create drought?!?_

[@bertrandlechat4330]

I think that is a willful misunderstanding.

[@koicaine1230]

This is awesome!

[@Lakeman3211]

Here in northern pa we have beavers, many beavers, some have been live trapped at over 70 lbs. they are clever we are more clever, we have along with the game Commision have thwarted the challenges that living with them presents, they have created lots of ponds up the valley and they don’t seem to have many predators…they create flood control and habitat builders, and loads of aquatic birds, fish, and amphibians, even the bald eagles are now nesting nearby….

[@Seeker0fTruth]

Sullivan County? Bradford? 🦫

[@matthewchase2512]

Putting back to the way it was who new !

[@terryankevmiller470]

Love this story.......everything on this planet is all connected

[@lucylocket5262]

Beavers were never "pests". Humans didn't have enough knowledge to appreciate what beavers do.

[@Punisher6791]

to quote one of my favorite actors playing one of my favorite character's "uh...Life...uh, finds a way".

[@watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870]

Beavers on government payroll? Why not, dogs already are!

[@Mega13green]

Shout out to them beavers ! 💯

[@dwno5670]

That is so cool Beaver's and real neat how they build there dams😊🌝☺️

[@Carolesoriginalpieces]

What a great project

[@chosen1one930]

Very cool

[@borrisdillan9783]

THE WORST PEST ON EARTH ARE HUMAN BEINGS!

[@mirandatj6236]

Not all. .but most!😅

[@rayrocher6887]

Thanks save the beavers, nice pond

[@gihankanishka]

this Native American wisdom