To fix salmon streams, leave it to beavers

At the height of the fur trade in the mid 1800s, Washington beavers were being trapped and killed for their pelts by the thousands. Now they’ve rebounded into the suburbs and even golf courses, but the big rodents aren’t always welcome: Nuisance beavers cause flooding and down trees with such frequency they can damage houses or take out power lines.
In response, lethal beaver trapping resumed, but the Tulalip Tribes came up with a a plan to relocate aquatic troublemakers to rivers in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Now, these brilliant ecosystem engineers are doing more than just finding a new home: They’re mitigating some of the impacts of climate change for Washington’s threatened salmon. Relocated beavers dam up natural streams with such efficiency they create the deep, cool pools salmon need to thrive.
Join us to watch how scientists trap, rehabilitate and relocate beavers from suburban pond to mountain stream - and discover the strange technique used to tell a male beaver from a female.
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[@TheCommono]

I have never seen a cuter rodent...

[@cjboffoli]

Beautifully shot. Kudos Ms. Hoffman. I'm wondering if they find that these beavers remain in the area around where they are released.

[@billrobbins5874]

If they have families do they all get taken to the same spot and released?

[@PacoOtis]

Bravo and best of luck!

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Great. Thx

[@wolley2012]

Motor oil or blue cheese. Interesting.

[@anoniconoclast2030]

Let it go already

[@chuckburr517]

And remove the dams

[@daveallentown6868]

I commend the effort, even though climate change didn't cause the problem.

[@quercus417]

How do you know that?

[@stevenkrum3940]

@@quercus417 because climate change is a hoax

[@quercus417]

@@stevenkrum3940 So is the bible, but look at all the believers.

[@RichRich1955]

@@stevenkrum3940 greenhouse gases don't exist?

[@nesq4104]

@@RichRich1955 yes in greenhouses

[@MG-fn9xw]

That liberal/political term climate change is really throwing me off an keeping me from watching. I remember back in 2012 my marine bio professor at USC convinced an auditorium of 350 students that the world was coming to an end in 11 years bc of climate change. An I believed her hook, line, and sinker. I’ve woken up to the politics since then. She’s just another alarmist that happens to be helping beavers reintroduce the water to under ground aquifers