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Oregon Beavers Rebuild Rivers

Oregon Beavers Rebuild Rivers

Gargi Chakravorty

Picture this: Oregon’s streams and likely harbored a substantial population of North American beaver before European colonization. Today, these remarkable rodents are making a comeback as nature’s most effective stream restoration engineers, transforming degraded waterways across the Pacific Northwest in ways that seem almost magical. What makes this story even more compelling is that scientists ...