Nature’s Freshwater Engineer
We love beavers for what they do for water, land and life.
Beaver Benefits 101
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Beaver Benefits on Waterways
Beaver activities significantly enhance ecosystems, fostering resilience against climate change. Their wetlands support biodiversity, regulate water flow, improve water quality,…
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Beaver dams are a natural pollution solution
Beaver dams improve water quality by using physical, chemical, and biological methods in two lines of defense.
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Beavers drive healthy water cycles
Water is the key to life. Water is constantly cycling throughout the landscape. It is easy to see how it…
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Beavers are Water Wardens
When beaver dams slow water, it has more time to flow downward into the soils, recharging groundwater reserves. This creates…
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Beavers and Floodplain Reconnection
Waterways with beavers look and function completely different from those without, and their changes have wide-reaching benefits. Beavers transform waterways…
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Beavers and Wildfire
Beaver wetlands are complex places, full of lush riparian vegetation and standing water. Because of this, beaver altered habitat will…
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Beavers and Carbon Capture
Beavers can transform creeks into into wetlands that capture carbon. New beaver wetlands bank the most carbon; however, beavers also…
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Beavers Keep It Cool
Beaver dams significantly impact stream temperatures by cooling waters in summer and warming them in winter, which is crucial for…
How Beavers Support Wildlife
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Beavers support salmon
Beavers engineer waterways into rich fish nurseries, where young salmon choose from varying depths, temperatures, and flow rates — depending…
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Beavers support frogs and toads
Frogs and toads start life in the water, making them reliant on wetlands for up to a third of their…
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Beavers support trout
Beaver wetlands create high-quality trout habitat. The dams capture sediment, which helps keep downstream gravel beds clean for spawning. Dams…
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Beavers support waterfowl
Trying to survive as a newly hatched duckling is not easy, but those that find themselves growing up in a…