WASHINGTON — Beaver ponds contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient that can become a pollutant when too much is present. Land managers need to know if beaver ponds are storing or releasing nitrogen, ...

Beaver ponds are found throughout the Colorado High Country. Toss a lightweight fly rod in your vehicle and hit some High Country roads. Any short hike along a mountain stream will lead to a beaver ...

Beavers are influential animals in ecosystems. These dam-building, tree-chewing rodents change streamflow with their wooden barriers and create rich wetland habitats by diverting water into soils near ...

Beavers are nature’s best engineers. Can we use their skills? Fur trappers almost eradicated beavers, but now there’s a movement to restore these clever creatures to the landscape. Beaver ponds are ...

A pond near the trails at Rollins Road in Bow where beavers are back rebuilding a dam just two weeks after culverts were cleared to lower water levels. Credit: Sruthi Gopalakrishnan Sign up for the ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

A vast burn scar unfolds in drone footage of a landscape seared by massive wildfires north of Lake Tahoe. But amid the expanses of torched trees and gray soil, an unburnt island of lush green emerges.

Ballston Beaver Pond is in need of a new name because, well, there are no more beavers. An online survey to rename Ballston Beaver Pond is set to close on Wednesday, June 1, as renovations at the pond ...