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Dam Good Work: WYCAP Teams Up for Wyoming's Beavers
Wildlife, Conservation, Education Merav Ben-David, PhD Wildlife, Conservation, Education Merav Ben-David, PhD

Dam Good Work: WYCAP Teams Up for Wyoming's Beavers

Research shows that beaver activity can increase water retention by hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water in a single watershed, reducing flooding and creating natural fire and drought resistance. The benefits of beavers to landowners and agricultural producers, hunters, anglers, recreationalists, wildlife advocates, and all water users across society are innumerable. 

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Building Like a Beaver: How Volunteers Are Restoring Wyoming's Streams with Beaver Dam Analogs
Conservation, Wildlife Sage Lefkowitz Conservation, Wildlife Sage Lefkowitz

Building Like a Beaver: How Volunteers Are Restoring Wyoming's Streams with Beaver Dam Analogs

For thousands of years, beavers were the engineers of the West's streams. Their dams slowed rushing water, spread it across valley floors, and created lush, wet corridors full of willows, fish, birds, and wildlife.

Conservationists are borrowing a page from the beaver's playbook. Using simple, hand-built structures called beaver dam analogs, crews of staff and volunteers are helping streams heal.

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