This catchy and factual beaver song has been stuck in my head all week... hope it absolutely delights you too 😁🦫💕 #beavers youtu.be/hDtqfa_5t5o?...

Beavers

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I can't help but think all beavers feel this way in regards to human activities. They had 7 million years of peaceful existence...then these mentally ill primates show up...

Me any time there is an opening in the conversation

Some exemplary #beaverart. I followed a beaver trail through a dense thicket and emerged here in this little flooded opening surrounding this large ash tree. Tooth on ash wood. Anonymous

One of the big take-aways from my field research has been how much beaver contribute to structural diversity in their habitat, and how important that complexity is to their survival. Old trees, young trees, chewed trees, windblown trees! Impenetrable beaver thickets! Wide open ponds!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 🪱🌱 Without microbes, fungi, and other tiny creatures, healthy food cannot grow. Plants depend on soil life to unlock nutrients and flourish. No soil life, no human life. 👉🏼 What do you think we can do to boost soil life?

I will advocate for biodiversity until my last tail slap on this earth! We need our native bees and the healthy wetland ecosystems that support them. The beavs are here to support #worldbeeday !

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 3mo ago

May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

Sharing one of my favorite illustrations of beaver wetland biodiversity for #endangeredspeciesday Supporting endangered species means supporting your local beaver brigade! All credit to @jeroen-helmer.bsky.social

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Beavers evolved into their present form during the Miocene & survived ice ages, glacial melts & climate chaos by engineering stability in their environments. We can thank them for 7mil yrs of biodiversity cultivation!

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: the microbes in your gut stimulate your immune system & live where pathogens want to live & use the same nutrients as pathogens & they help you digest your food, so really you owe your life to your gut microbes.

A final thought for this day... #Ecology #Attenborough.

I went down the beaver evolution rodent hole, and there is something I need you to know: Beavers, in their present size, form, & behavior evolved 7 MILLION years ago, in the Miocene. That is how long they have been enriching ecosystems. Homo Sapiens were not even a twinkle in evolution's eye.

Did you know you can just... rescue baby beavers and be happy? Imagine just waking up every day surrounded by fluffy baby beavers. 😭🦫❤️ youtube.com/shorts/AEj9h...

Bebe beavers 🦫 safe and loved 🥰 # #beavers #wildliferescue #cuteanimals

YouTube video by Holley Muraco at Something Wild

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Beaver workers of the world unite! May all wetlands be protected and rodent engineers be treated respectfully for the ecosystem services they provide! #mayday #beavers #solidarity

This just in- Beaver scientist finds human activities actual cause of climate change.

I'm so DAM tired of beaver being the scapegoat for any changes to water or climate 🤬! A cited rant on Arctic beaver: tinyurl.com/yc5k6bpy This very cool, innovative study published on analyzing beaver presence through time in the Arctic is making the rounds, & should be celebrated ... 1/5

Dendrochronology and remote sensing reveal beaver occupancy and colonization dynamics in an expanding Arctic population

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is expanding its distribution in the Arctic tundra. Due to the species' capacity to engineer ecosystems, they can transform surface water dynamics and bi....

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❤️ Beaver Trust gets it!

Beaver Trust@beavertrust.org · 3mo ago

Beavers are nature’s best engineers, but they need us to get behind them. By donating today, you’re supporting beavers and all that comes with them: returning wildlife, mood-boosting wetlands and climate resilient landscapes. Donate here👇 https://bit.ly/4cYMaJY #mammals #nature

The science is in on salmon populations. They need free flowing rivers, connected, healthy tributaries for raising young, and good water quality with varied flows. They need beavers. The only thing that needs to die in this situation is a violent resource management strategy that ignores ecology.

Through the Static@throughthestatic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Since the ‘80s, Washington state has seen a boom in sea lion presence, which has decimated salmon and steelhead populations. With the Columbia River experiencing another spike, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is preparing to euthanize some of them for “driving up food costs,” she announced on April 17.

The wetlands are blooming!

American scientists are not OK😐

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

A good day to watch this many times over

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦫 Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% 🦫 @NatureUnedited

YES! This is another great treatise outlining why focusing on keystone spp, like beaver, and ecosystems of high biodiversity, like wetlands, in restoration and protection is so critical. #ecology

PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Achieving climate and development goals is impossible without keeping nature intact", says PIKs Rockström. By 2030, halting the loss of remaining intact biomes is key while reversing extinction risks & scaling up restoration. New @frontiersin.bsky.social paper👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

I am constantly in awe of beaver's highly selective methods of tree chewing. In just this small area we can see a cottonwood that has been repeatedly debarked and healed, but never cut, a mature ash that is heavily debarked, & two smaller ash in various stages of felling. How do beavs plan & decide?

This is a financial and civilian force that can push back to protect the USFS!

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge News! Thank you for making your voices heard. The Conservation Alliance posted just 30 minutes ago that they are joining the movement to save the U.S. Forest Service and over 70 businesses have signed on! Stronger together!

Pressuring the outdoor brands to speak out against the gutting of the USFS is a worthwhile effort. They benefit directly from people recreating on public lands and are widely used for gear by people in federal jobs. Details on how to write your letters/posts as a coordinated effort : saveusfs.org

🙌 ❤️🦫 Happy International Beaver Day!!! 🦫❤️🙌 There are so many great ways to celebrate beavers! I'm threading some of my favorite Beaver Believer resources below- please share & add yours! #beavers #ecology #animals #biology #wetlandeco #joy

a cartoon of a beaver riding a surfboard with his arms in the air .

ALT: a cartoon of a beaver riding a surfboard with his arms in the air .

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Daily bunny no.3270 just wants to help out

Last day to submit comments to demand UNESCO heritage site, Chaco Canyon, stays protected! The relics of early peoples and fragile desert environments should not be turned into corporate oil drilling sites for short term profit!!! Links to public comment site below.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️

Official USFS publication dated 1977. I keep it framed and hung on my wall because it reminds me of how long people have worked and cared for the same things I do. All of us have an obligation to protect our public lands and continue this work. #usfs #ecology #conservation 🍁 🌎 @alt.usfs.info

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility@peer.org · 4mo ago

As part of a wide-ranging reorganization and headquarters move from DC to Utah, the U.S. Forest Service is shuttering more than 57 research stations and eliminating a significant number of forestry scientists. https://ow.ly/HE8i50YCiQl #ForestService #NationalForests