Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes

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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  • @sandraaviles-wilkes7036
    @sandraaviles-wilkes7036 Жыл бұрын

    FINALLY beavers are getting RESPECT!

  • @nylirama
    @nylirama Жыл бұрын

    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

    @thomasperkins7318

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! Except for cockroaches.😺

  • @hlsylsify

    @hlsylsify

    Жыл бұрын

    Tell me about it! Absolutely agree with you.

  • @michelleredmond4450

    @michelleredmond4450

    Жыл бұрын

    Everything has a purpose on earth 🌎

  • @VesperAegis

    @VesperAegis

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @nylirama

    @nylirama

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Herbhead369
    @Herbhead369 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @007Julie

    @007Julie

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lucypearlmorgan3115

    @lucypearlmorgan3115

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @linda6987

    @linda6987

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @nomaticors
    @nomaticors Жыл бұрын

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

  • @p_aabs

    @p_aabs

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Joelsellers29

    @Joelsellers29

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @p_aabs

    @p_aabs

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @carolames7624

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @nicholaslee4669

    @nicholaslee4669

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @qwertylife
    @qwertylife Жыл бұрын

    Finally, beavers are being appreciated once again!

  • @puertoricosgaytourguides438
    @puertoricosgaytourguides438 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @catlover34fl

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely!!!!!

  • @thomasperkins7318
    @thomasperkins7318 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @VesperAegis

    @VesperAegis

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too. That Vigliotti is rockin' it.

  • @keithbell9348

    @keithbell9348

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @allanthomas332

    @allanthomas332

    Жыл бұрын

    Leave it to beaver’s they know what they doing

  • @keithbell9348

    @keithbell9348

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Drskopf

    @Drskopf

    Жыл бұрын

    The natives knew!! But nobody listened in those years

  • @suzanne529
    @suzanne529 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @miles5600

    @miles5600

    Жыл бұрын

    We can help mother nature though

  • @praetorianstride5948

    @praetorianstride5948

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @blkyogi999

    @blkyogi999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@miles5600 help yes… control, no

  • @miles5600

    @miles5600

    Жыл бұрын

    @@blkyogi999 agreed

  • @Kim-lc3fv
    @Kim-lc3fv Жыл бұрын

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

  • @brendatenorio5721
    @brendatenorio5721 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @aaronpaul06
    @aaronpaul06 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @philoctetes_wordsworth
    @philoctetes_wordsworth Жыл бұрын

    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

    @rich2583

    Жыл бұрын

    You actually think raw sewage is mixing with this water?

  • @maureenoneill5754
    @maureenoneill5754 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @patriciawilson2013
    @patriciawilson2013 Жыл бұрын

    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!! ❤️👍🏽👌🏽 😍🥰😊

  • @DebSherr
    @DebSherr Жыл бұрын

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

  • @RobertSaxy
    @RobertSaxy Жыл бұрын

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

  • @stevieme8642
    @stevieme8642 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @LouiseGray-sx1dt

    @LouiseGray-sx1dt

    5 күн бұрын

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

  • @katelarouche2835
    @katelarouche2835 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers886 Жыл бұрын

    We ignore nature at our peril.

  • @jamesskelton698
    @jamesskelton698 Жыл бұрын

    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
    @Maybe1Someday Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chadddrott9627
    @chadddrott9627 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @c87kim

    Жыл бұрын

    Ofc you have. Teachers always think they right

  • @carolames7624

    @carolames7624

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @linda6987

    9 ай бұрын

    Amen!!!!

  • @SunraeSkatimunggr
    @SunraeSkatimunggr Жыл бұрын

    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

    @jashannon

    Жыл бұрын

    then they should get beavers

  • @CAM-fq8lv
    @CAM-fq8lv Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dia9491
    @dia9491 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabevilla8578
    @gabevilla8578 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Siddhartha040107
    @Siddhartha040107 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @MrMountainchris

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Siddhartha040107

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @1125Mia
    @1125Mia Жыл бұрын

    this makes me incredibly happy!

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 Жыл бұрын

    Love the dam builders

  • @richmoves
    @richmoves Жыл бұрын

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

  • @linda6987

    @linda6987

    9 ай бұрын

    Well said!

  • @desmeisme
    @desmeisme Жыл бұрын

    That’s actually pretty amazing

  • @Gron257
    @Gron257 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @missytempleman4793
    @missytempleman4793 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @christinewelford1842
    @christinewelford1842 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @paulabears7882
    @paulabears7882 Жыл бұрын

    Finally, humans realize nature does know best.

  • @Houligans
    @Houligans Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamessparkman6604

    @jamessparkman6604

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @uncledogg5156
    @uncledogg5156 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this story.

  • @BanjoBitty
    @BanjoBitty Жыл бұрын

    "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.

  • @RikodiusRex
    @RikodiusRex Жыл бұрын

    Handy dandy beavers!

  • @FaTCaKeSs1995
    @FaTCaKeSs1995 Жыл бұрын

    Crazy how they build perfect dam

  • @tccragun
    @tccragun Жыл бұрын

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

  • @adrianhires6500
    @adrianhires6500 Жыл бұрын

    Leave it to beavers 🕶👌

  • @haven_lady675
    @haven_lady675 Жыл бұрын

    Beavers are adorable

  • @clebert6655
    @clebert6655 Жыл бұрын

    Doing this in Idaho as well.

  • @willyjilly9684
    @willyjilly9684 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @desmeisme

    @desmeisme

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. You too

  • @robinstevenson6690
    @robinstevenson6690 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Meerkat000
    @Meerkat000 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @razzberytman

    @razzberytman

    Жыл бұрын

    Good luck! :)

  • @just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you
    @just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @3in2Art
    @3in2Art Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!

  • @707Anguiano
    @707Anguiano Жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaelvillarreal1225
    @michaelvillarreal1225 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ReviewBoard-uy5nv
    @ReviewBoard-uy5nv Жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @SainteMichele
    @SainteMichele Жыл бұрын

    leave the beavers alone!!!

  • @koicaine1230
    @koicaine1230 Жыл бұрын

    This is awesome!

  • @afl3733
    @afl3733 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing

  • @biblebasher9364
    @biblebasher9364 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @CHMichael

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnmooney9444
    @johnmooney94448 ай бұрын

    A sign of hope.

  • @Mikey-fh6xn
    @Mikey-fh6xn Жыл бұрын

    These little creatures are really chill

  • @esthermcdonald2297
    @esthermcdonald2297 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful

  • @richtofenillingroth641
    @richtofenillingroth641 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful creatures

  • @victorlopez-eq3yl
    @victorlopez-eq3yl Жыл бұрын

    Perfect

  • @pahunter3
    @pahunter3 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Longhairbaee
    @Longhairbaee Жыл бұрын

    Poor beavers and what they have been through 🥺😢

  • @pins44
    @pins44 Жыл бұрын

    I LOVE THIS.

  • @matt39581
    @matt39581 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @shellysmith1037

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @samfilmkid
    @samfilmkid Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lucylocket5262
    @lucylocket5262 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @deanvm9158
    @deanvm9158 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @euodiaclitterhouse4726
    @euodiaclitterhouse4726 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @chosen1one930
    @chosen1one930 Жыл бұрын

    Very cool

  • @mikeomolt4485
    @mikeomolt4485 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Crmnllmnt
    @Crmnllmnt Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @deanvm9158
    @deanvm9158 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @lurkingarachnid7475
    @lurkingarachnid7475 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @shellysmith1037

    @shellysmith1037

    Жыл бұрын

    Lets not pick on native americans.

  • @vango7499
    @vango7499 Жыл бұрын

    Lots of beavers by me in . Georgia

  • @duncanbleak3819
    @duncanbleak3819 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ccggenius
    @ccggenius Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Carolesoriginalpieces
    @Carolesoriginalpieces Жыл бұрын

    What a great project

  • @danielt.3152
    @danielt.3152 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ellenmaccullough1682
    @ellenmaccullough168210 ай бұрын

    ❤Amazing.😊

  • @elizabethr4107
    @elizabethr4107 Жыл бұрын

    Let's go beavers! #MIT

  • @gglen2141
    @gglen2141 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dwno5670
    @dwno5670 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrMountainchris
    @MrMountainchris Жыл бұрын

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

  • @matthewchase2512
    @matthewchase25129 ай бұрын

    Putting back to the way it was who new !

  • @ronaldharris6569
    @ronaldharris6569 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Punisher6791
    @Punisher6791 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @esthermcdonald2297
    @esthermcdonald2297 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderland

  • @Brenda-qw7lb
    @Brenda-qw7lb Жыл бұрын

    Everything is put here for a reason.

  • @Lakeman3211
    @Lakeman3211 Жыл бұрын

    Here in northern pa we have beavers, many beavers, some have been live trapped at over 70 lbs. they are clever we are more clever, we have along with the game Commision have thwarted the challenges that living with them presents, they have created lots of ponds up the valley and they don’t seem to have many predators…they create flood control and habitat builders, and loads of aquatic birds, fish, and amphibians, even the bald eagles are now nesting nearby….

  • @Seeker0fTruth

    @Seeker0fTruth

    Жыл бұрын

    Sullivan County? Bradford? 🦫

  • @skycat04
    @skycat04 Жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @lukevaughan259
    @lukevaughan259 Жыл бұрын

    thats pretty cool

  • @TheHonestPeanut
    @TheHonestPeanut Жыл бұрын

    You mean to tell me our environment does better when we don't mess with it? The heck you say.

  • @terryankevmiller470
    @terryankevmiller470 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bingbong9844
    @bingbong9844 Жыл бұрын

    “Walking hotdogs” 😂

  • @marcus.durazo
    @marcus.durazo Жыл бұрын

    Me looking at the walking hotdog: 👁👄👁

  • @laurarandolph5600
    @laurarandolph5600 Жыл бұрын

    They are adorable...

  • @Mega13green
    @Mega13green Жыл бұрын

    Shout out to them beavers ! 💯

  • @michaelbagley9116
    @michaelbagley9116 Жыл бұрын

    One thing that they are teaching is that if you allow all the water to flow away. You lose the water for your needs. So little things like having a higher border on your lawn and letting the water soak into the local soil and aquifer would make a tremendous difference. Special kind of concrete and asphalt to allow water to flow through.