Beavers Are Firefighters Who Work for Free.

[elleng]

*"Fairfax began to carry out the scientific research that she had hoped to find. Using satellite images, she mapped vegetation around beaver territories before, after, and during wildfires (footage of wildfires in progress can show how a fire moves through a landscape). She visited field sites in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming and found sections of creek that did not have beavers were on average more than three times as affected by fire—burning a bigger area—than areas where beavers had built dams.

“I expected some of the time beaver dams would work,” says Fairfax. Instead, she found the presence of beavers had significant effects.
“It didn’t matter if it was one pond or 55 ponds in a row. If there were beaver dams, the land was protected from fire. It was incredible.” "'>>>

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/wildfires-tek-beavers-are-firefighters-who-work-for-free?

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Did you read the story here a couple days ago?

About the beavers who had returned an arid floodplain to a wetland habitat in three years?

More beavers, please!

[elleng]

2. YES!

[Blanks]

3. This makes sense of course...

When we build asphalt and concrete roads that drain through underground drainage systems to rivers and streams to prevent water from soaking into the ground and denying plants and trees a necessary component for their growth, we reduce the potential for shade producing trees, create urban heat islands and deny our communities the heat reduction from the ‘latent heat of vaporization’ of water if it isn’t allowed to evaporate.

Beaver dams take advantage of all of that.

Around here, we have a whole bunch of man made fish ponds and rice fields. We get so much rainfall at times farmers can’t get their hay out of the fields in the spring. It’s good to see someone doing this kind of research.

[Goonch]

4. Busy