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They also help preserve ecosystems even as they are destructive to human endeavors: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/environment-and-nature/20141220/leave-it-t

• hga 11y ago
  Well, it's all an "in the right place" sort of thing. Put them just outside a human area with too low tree density and pretty much everyone loves beavers, aside from as I recall trout fishermen who better running water. However, when the article says "Beaver dams bestow benefits to the environment that we humans can’t easily copy. They turn land into a sponge for water.", that presupposes there being some water for them to actually capture and manage! Kind of a bricks without straw problem; hopefully the 2015 El Niño will give them and everyone else a lot of water to work with. This being modern, high tech California, surely there's an opening for a "Disrupt Drought!" modern version of this Idaho effort using the latest in drones et. al. ^_^