These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the ...

They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are ...

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing recognition that they also are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. This fall, the Ontario government ...

Professor Jamie Pittock of the Environment and Society school and Australian National University, the key lesson to be ...

California has recently relocated beavers from spots where they were causing problems, like flooding, to tribal lands in Northern and Southern California. Many advocates say that relocating beavers to ...

No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

A colony of beavers has saved the Czech government almost £1 million after completing a stalled dam project themselves. Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the ...

For the first time in 200 years it’s great to be a beaver in California. In a show of unanimous bipartisan support, the state Legislature voted this summer to pass Assembly Bill 2196, which codifies ...

Quick Take Oregon officially named the American beaver as its state mammal in 1969 after long informal symbolism. ...