Nuisance Beavers Relocated To Repair Restore Streams

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Nuisance beavers put to work restoring streams - Las Vegas MyNews3 - KSNV

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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — In a heavily irrigated Washington valley where fish, crops and people often compete for water, biologists are turning to one of nature's best engineers to help restore streams and salmon habitat.


Landowners typically trap or kill beavers that block irrigation canals and flood homes in the Yakima Valley.
But one project is relocating the troublemaking mammals to the headwaters of the Yakima River, where their talent for chewing willows and constructing lodges can be put to good use.


Project manager Mel Babik says beavers can be really destructive, but in the right places, they can be good ecosystem engineers.


In Washington, Oregon, Utah and other parts of the West, beavers increasingly are being used as an effective, low-cost tool to help restore rivers. Experts say their dams and ponds add complexity to an ecosystem, slowing the flow of water and sediment downstream.
 
40 years ago we were the recipients of one of these blessings. Within five years these little monsters had blocked every ditch, flooding roads and homes during the spring rains. It took us almost ten years to clean up after the blessing. I hope that the wise ones who are reintroducing the beavers have actually done their homework!
 
We have a small river across the road from us, which the beavers build amazing structures in, only to be relocated. Enforce the summer is over!

I'm glad Washington state is finding good use for them!
 
Canada apologizes. Because beavers. Seems like the right thing to do.
 
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