Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes

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Jonathan Vigliotti sets out to see firsthand how scientists in California and Utah are using beavers to help create landscapes resistant to drought and fires.
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@nylirama Год назад

This proves to me once again that there is no nuisances in mother nature. Everything has a very important role. Everything is interconnected even if we don't know how. In my opinion, humans are the only nuisance that keeps messing the planet up over and over again.

@thomasperkins7318 Год назад

Absolutely! Except for cockroaches.😺

@hlsylsify Год назад

Tell me about it! Absolutely agree with you.

@michelleredmond4450 Год назад

Everything has a purpose on earth 🌎

@VesperAegis Год назад

We could quibble over cancer and brain tumors, I think.

@nylirama Год назад

@@thomasperkins7318 I agree 🙂 There are many insects, parasites and others that only seem to have a negative impact but if we eliminate them completely who knows what kind of imbalance would be created.

@sandraaviles-wilkes7036 Год назад

FINALLY beavers are getting RESPECT!

@nomaticors Год назад

Goats, beavers, bees. Everything can help the earth more than humans ever will.

@p_aabs Год назад

Incorrect, humans are the most intelligent life forms on the planet.

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

@@p_aabs we sure don't act like that, look what we've allowed to be done to our home.

@p_aabs Год назад

@@Joelsellers29 Environmentally, we haven't done great. But technologically and scientifically we've done a great job, i mean its literally for the preservation and commodity for ourselves, risks have to be taken in order to ensure it

@carolames7624 Год назад

Goats, beavers, bees--they are not "things" so they are "everyONE".

@nicholaslee4669 Год назад

@@p_aabs but if we don’t preserve the natural world and admit that nature needs conservation, then we won’t be able to continue our scientific and technological superiority since much of what we have comes from nature in some way, shape, or form.

@Herbhead369 Год назад

It’s funny how people use animals when they need them and dislike them when they don’t

@007Julie Год назад

Exactly! Humans are horrible, just horrible. We’re the ones who should go extinct not the animals and nature.

@lucypearlmorgan3115 Год назад

True. Here is another question: What will happened when they continue to breed? Remember history does repeat itself!!

@linda6987 9 месяцев назад

Not sure who said it “the only use for animals is if they taste good or how they fit. Sad....

@thomasperkins7318 Год назад

I've admired these marvelous creatures for years. We humans could learn a lot from these virtuous mammals.

@VesperAegis Год назад

Me too. That Vigliotti is rockin' it.

@keithbell9348 Год назад

We humans can do no better than learn from EVERYTHING in the natural world.

@allanthomas332 Год назад

Leave it to beaver’s they know what they doing

@keithbell9348 Год назад

@@allanthomas332 They must look at us as if we are as dumb as rocks..

@Drskopf Год назад

The natives knew!! But nobody listened in those years

@puertoricosgaytourguides438 Год назад

Humans are disgusting beings. First they killed the beavers and now they want their help. How about, leaving them alone? They are not the pest. We are.

@catlover34fl Год назад

Absolutely!!!!!

@qwertylife Год назад

Finally, beavers are being appreciated once again!

@suzanne529 Год назад

Another lesson in "Don't mess with Mother Nature". She knows what she is doing!

@miles5600 Год назад

We can help mother nature though

@praetorianstride5948 Год назад

Many people don’t believe that nature is any more than mass. They are dead wrong.

@blkyogi999 Год назад

@@miles5600 help yes… control, no

@miles5600 Год назад

@@blkyogi999 agreed

@Kim-lc3fv Год назад

I'm so glad beavers are getting Well deserved respect now. 🙂

@philoctetes_wordsworth Год назад

Yep. Restoring drained wetlands works. It also filters sewage water to crystal clean. Restoring wetlands is key, and beavers are a part of that.

@rich2583 Год назад

You actually think raw sewage is mixing with this water?

@brendatenorio5721 Год назад

Not only restoring streams, recharging aquifers, filtering water, creating a firewall, providing habitat for other creatures and creating a new more effective flood plan.

@codyshi4743 Год назад

Some times the best way to find solutions is to look to nature.

@LouiseGray-sx1dt 7 дней назад

Not “sometimes” - Nature ALWAYS know what she’s doing!! Your own body is natural, part of nature. Your body is an animal!

@patriciawilson2013 Год назад

We’ve used and abused them to near extinction. Now our very lives depend upon them. Too bad we couldn’t see what their usefulness was really for. Hope it isn’t too late. Go Beavers!! ❤️👍🏽👌🏽 😍🥰😊

@maureenoneill5754 Год назад

I've always LOVED beavers and how hard they work, and beautiful they are. I'm so glad to see this!🤗💗

@stevieme8642 Год назад

Makes me feel extra good about the beavers that moved into my neighborhood. They're such fascinating critters!

@RobertSaxy Год назад

I remember learning about this about a over a decade ago and can’t believe we haven’t done more to bring them back

@wesleyrodgers886 Год назад

We ignore nature at our peril.

@aaronpaul06 Год назад

I don’t think beavers are the problem in unwanted areas. Humans are on THEIR land.

@SunraeSkatimunggr Год назад

There is a farm near Ashland is using the concepts (with multiple ponds and streams) of what beavers do to create and VERY reliable and healthy ecosystem along with marketable produce in an area that is in drought right now.

@jashannon Год назад

then they should get beavers

@chadddrott9627 Год назад

I have been teaching wildlife education for 20 years… In that time I have talked about looking more towards wildlife to solve a lot of our planets problems. I mean nature has been relying on the animals to keep everything in balance for millions of years. Glad we are finally turning our blind eye back towards the light.

@c87kim Год назад

Ofc you have. Teachers always think they right

@carolames7624 Год назад

Humanity isn't fit to exist on planet Earth. We are not "stewards of creation." Rather, the other animals are the REAL stewards of creation! Give them, credit! Support animal rights! Go vegan!

@linda6987 9 месяцев назад

Amen!!!!

@katelarouche2835 Год назад

A hundred years after turning them all into hats we're finally willing to let them do the job the Creator made them for.

@CAM-fq8lv Год назад

Wonderful creatures who just work and work and work, and we benefit. Magical to come across them in the wild. Their damns are engineering wonders.

@jamesskelton698 Год назад

These are the kinds of things we need to be doing, instead of trying to find all the the stuff we do to fight about.

@Maybe1Someday Год назад

I love beavers, more are needed all over. In Las Vegas for example the storm runoff ravines in the desert can have a BDAs (natural dams) built so when it storms over time it can collect water. Over time creating trees and greenery. Then you can release beavers.

@gabevilla8578 Год назад

That animation Fairfax made is ammmmmazing! 🥳🥳She needs her own TikTok page filled with these educational animations🎉

@DebSherr Год назад

Leave it to beavers 🦫 and yet mankind gives animals little credit for intelligence but the animals understand ignorance.

@dia9491 Год назад

This is fantastic. We need to look at the animals because they know what to do. There is wisdom in instinct. Wonderful story.

@Siddhartha040107 Год назад

Like humans, beavers are a keystone species, animals that can create huge changes in the environment. Great news that humans and beavers are teaming up.

@MrMountainchris Год назад

We are NOT a keystone species! The earth would be much better off without us. We had no business climbing down from the trees in East Africa. That's where the problems started.

@Siddhartha040107 Год назад

@@MrMountainchris good or bad, we still affected the earth in a huge way. that is a keystone species

@1125Mia Год назад

this makes me incredibly happy!

@richmoves Год назад

Great story! This is another example how all of earth's species are intertwined in terms of dependency and survival. 🌍🧡

@linda6987 9 месяцев назад

Well said!

@desmeisme Год назад

That’s actually pretty amazing

@samanthab1923 Год назад

Love the dam builders

@Houligans Год назад

Might need to ban hunting them for awhile. They seem to be hunted quite a bit in our area.

@jamessparkman6604 Год назад

In my educated opinion we never should’ve hunted them in the first place

@christinewelford1842 Год назад

We have a pair up by my moms on the river we would get to watch them play and hunt when we would go fishing. They are so cool amd so miss understood animals.

@uncledogg5156 Год назад

Thank you for this story.

@Gron257 Год назад

We need to work WITH Nature, not against it. Nature already has the solutions, we just need to let it take its course.

@RikodiusRex Год назад

Handy dandy beavers!

@missytempleman4793 Год назад

They finely used animals and worked together with them in nature. How human of them. Took long enough.

@paulabears7882 Год назад

Finally, humans realize nature does know best.

@BanjoBitty Год назад

"They became a headache to land owners." Ironically the human centric view ends up screwing over everyone, including humans. When we see our true place in the natural world everyone can benefit.

@haven_lady675 Год назад

Beavers are adorable

@FaTCaKeSs1995 Год назад

Crazy how they build perfect dam

@tccragun Год назад

Some folks have long believed it better to work with Mother Nature than against her. The times they are a changin’

@adrianhires6500 Год назад

Leave it to beavers 🕶👌

@clebert6655 Год назад

Doing this in Idaho as well.

@Meerkat000 Год назад

Loved the stop motion animation!! Just gave me some ideas for my next project !!!

@razzberytman Год назад

Good luck! :)

@willyjilly9684 Год назад

If you read this I hope you have a wonderful day today 💙✌

@desmeisme Год назад

Thank you. You too

@robinstevenson6690 Год назад

Thank you for doing stories like this! Together, we can save our natural wonders.

@3in2Art Год назад

Fantastic!

@SainteMichele Год назад

leave the beavers alone!!!

@Longhairbaee Год назад

Poor beavers and what they have been through 🥺😢

@just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you Год назад

Aside from rain, beavers are also responsible for replenishing ground water. When they build dams, some of the trapped water are forced to go underground and thus replenishes ground water, of which cools the ground.

@pins44 Год назад

I LOVE THIS.

@richtofenillingroth641 Год назад

Beautiful creatures

@biblebasher9364 Год назад

Maybe loss of ground water isn't about the climate change, it's about us fast-tracking water runoff to the ocean. I mean, the climate is changing, along with our understanding as we use our hindsight.

@CHMichael Год назад

Global warming is a great excuse to not talk about local problems we created. ( not arguing the weather isn't changing)

@michaelvillarreal1225 Год назад

When it comes to adaptation and mitigation efforts we should focus on nature-based solutions

@707Anguiano Год назад

It doesn't matter how many things we throw at drought issues. It starts with educating the public about water use.

@samfilmkid Год назад

I guess beavers are going to become a cottage industry now!

@johnmooney9444 8 месяцев назад

A sign of hope.

@pahunter3 Год назад

This is another indication that California has needed more dams to retain rain water and snow melt when there are atmospheric rivers bringing heavy rains and snow.

@ReviewBoard-uy5nv Год назад

Amazing

@afl3733 Год назад

This is amazing

@victorlopez-eq3yl Год назад

Perfect

@koicaine1230 Год назад

This is awesome!

@Mikey-fh6xn Год назад

These little creatures are really chill

@elizabethr4107 Год назад

Let's go beavers! #MIT

@matt39581 Год назад

I like that we're starting to do this now, but it sort of gives the same impression as a silicon valley startup breathlessly announcing that they've invented something which just turns out to be a bus again

@shellysmith1037 Год назад

Yes, beavers are cool but it seems funny Trout Unlimited in CA. is removing dams at the same time their DNR are letting beavers build them. IE: dams are good, but not your dams, just our dams

@Crmnllmnt Год назад

CBS, Good morning. It's very good that CBS takes on programs that shows us what we're doing to help combat climate change rather than be us to death with climate change is destroying our world. We are humans and we are so smart. We can solve this problem if we can just get the news to support this kind of attitude. Well done

@esthermcdonald2297 Год назад

Wonderful

@deanvm9158 Год назад

A species that we once almost killed to extinction are now doing us a favor... Or let me say, have been doing us a favor, and we just didn't know. I feel sorry for these animals.

@euodiaclitterhouse4726 Год назад

They are so tight knit with their families, I hope they keep them together when movin them...

@mikeomolt4485 Год назад

Beavers could probably help keeping garden lawns green and frequently watered, . . . . if you don't mind the smell.

@Brenda-qw7lb Год назад

Everything is put here for a reason.

@chosen1one930 Год назад

Very cool

@lucylocket5262 Год назад

Beavers were never "pests". Humans didn't have enough knowledge to appreciate what beavers do.

@Punisher6791 Год назад

to quote one of my favorite actors playing one of my favorite character's "uh...Life...uh, finds a way".

@deanvm9158 Год назад

Isn't it unfair that, when we thought beavers had no use, we killed them almost to extinction and now that we see how they can be useful to us, all of a sudden we adore them? All we humans do is use. We keep using anything that we come across. And when we don't see any use for something anymore, we get rid of it.

@vango7499 Год назад

Lots of beavers by me in . Georgia

@danielt.3152 Год назад

Beavers can work 24X7 for free and create new habitats, we should be using them even more

@lurkingarachnid7475 Год назад

Shouldn't have been hunting and killing them for over a century

@shellysmith1037 Год назад

Lets not pick on native americans.

@duncanbleak3819 Год назад

Beavers, more beneficial to the planet than humans!!! What a surprise.

@ccggenius Год назад

So... what do things look like further downstream? It's not like this is creating more water, it's just withholding more upriver.

@ronaldharris6569 Год назад

The numbers of beavers that were trapped and skinned will never be known

@MrMountainchris Год назад

Once again proving, nature was perfect before we ruined it.

@gglen2141 Год назад

That is really interesting. So many of these discoveries are such "duh" moments.Eco systems that have evolved over millions of years are disrupted over centuries by humans and then 'rediscovered' by humans. Better late than never.

@Carolesoriginalpieces Год назад

What a great project

@terryankevmiller470 Год назад

Love this story.......everything on this planet is all connected

@Mega13green Год назад

Shout out to them beavers ! 💯

@dwno5670 Год назад

That is so cool Beaver's and real neat how they build there dams😊🌝☺️

@skycat04 Год назад

The Colorado River's whole region should be populated by them, and then in a few years there would be far more water in it (and in Lake Powell and Lake Mead).