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Oregon’s Beavers Are Transforming Rivers

Suhail Ahmed

On stormy nights across western Oregon, creeks that once rushed like firehoses now spread, linger, and breathe – thanks to a tireless engineer with orange incisors and a head for hydraulics. The beaver, long maligned as a nuisance, is quietly rewriting flood stories and restoring frayed ecosystems from farm valleys to forested headwaters. Researchers and ...