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.
#news #beavers #climatechange
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FINALLY beavers are getting RESPECT!
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
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Except for cockroaches.😺
@hlsylsify
Жыл бұрын
Tell me about it! Absolutely agree with you.
@michelleredmond4450
Жыл бұрын
Everything has a purpose on earth 🌎
@VesperAegis
Жыл бұрын
We could quibble over cancer and brain tumors, I think.
@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.
It’s funny how people use animals when they need them and dislike them when they don’t
@007Julie
Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Humans are horrible, just horrible. We’re the ones who should go extinct not the animals and nature.
@lucypearlmorgan3115
Жыл бұрын
True. Here is another question: What will happened when they continue to breed? Remember history does repeat itself!!
@linda6987
9 ай бұрын
Not sure who said it “the only use for animals is if they taste good or how they fit. Sad....
Goats, beavers, bees. Everything can help the earth more than humans ever will.
@p_aabs
Жыл бұрын
Incorrect, humans are the most intelligent life forms on the planet.
@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
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
Жыл бұрын
Goats, beavers, bees--they are not "things" so they are "everyONE".
@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.
Finally, beavers are being appreciated once again!
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
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!!!!
I've admired these marvelous creatures for years. We humans could learn a lot from these virtuous mammals.
@VesperAegis
Жыл бұрын
Me too. That Vigliotti is rockin' it.
@keithbell9348
Жыл бұрын
We humans can do no better than learn from EVERYTHING in the natural world.
@allanthomas332
Жыл бұрын
Leave it to beaver’s they know what they doing
@keithbell9348
Жыл бұрын
@@allanthomas332 They must look at us as if we are as dumb as rocks..
@Drskopf
Жыл бұрын
The natives knew!! But nobody listened in those years
Another lesson in "Don't mess with Mother Nature". She knows what she is doing!
@miles5600
Жыл бұрын
We can help mother nature though
@praetorianstride5948
Жыл бұрын
Many people don’t believe that nature is any more than mass. They are dead wrong.
@blkyogi999
Жыл бұрын
@@miles5600 help yes… control, no
@miles5600
Жыл бұрын
@@blkyogi999 agreed
I'm so glad beavers are getting Well deserved respect now. 🙂
Not only restoring streams, recharging aquifers, filtering water, creating a firewall, providing habitat for other creatures and creating a new more effective flood plan.
I don’t think beavers are the problem in unwanted areas. Humans are on THEIR land.
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
Жыл бұрын
You actually think raw sewage is mixing with this water?
I've always LOVED beavers and how hard they work, and beautiful they are. I'm so glad to see this!🤗💗
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!! ❤️👍🏽👌🏽 😍🥰😊
Leave it to beavers 🦫 and yet mankind gives animals little credit for intelligence but the animals understand ignorance.
I remember learning about this about a over a decade ago and can’t believe we haven’t done more to bring them back
Makes me feel extra good about the beavers that moved into my neighborhood. They're such fascinating critters!
Some times the best way to find solutions is to look to nature.
@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!
A hundred years after turning them all into hats we're finally willing to let them do the job the Creator made them for.
We ignore nature at our peril.
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.
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.
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
Жыл бұрын
Ofc you have. Teachers always think they right
@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
9 ай бұрын
Amen!!!!
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
Жыл бұрын
then they should get beavers
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.
This is fantastic. We need to look at the animals because they know what to do. There is wisdom in instinct. Wonderful story.
That animation Fairfax made is ammmmmazing! 🥳🥳She needs her own TikTok page filled with these educational animations🎉
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
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
Жыл бұрын
@@MrMountainchris good or bad, we still affected the earth in a huge way. that is a keystone species
this makes me incredibly happy!
Love the dam builders
Great story! This is another example how all of earth's species are intertwined in terms of dependency and survival. 🌍🧡
@linda6987
9 ай бұрын
Well said!
That’s actually pretty amazing
We need to work WITH Nature, not against it. Nature already has the solutions, we just need to let it take its course.
They finely used animals and worked together with them in nature. How human of them. Took long enough.
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.
Finally, humans realize nature does know best.
Might need to ban hunting them for awhile. They seem to be hunted quite a bit in our area.
@jamessparkman6604
Жыл бұрын
In my educated opinion we never should’ve hunted them in the first place
Thank you for this story.
"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.
Handy dandy beavers!
Crazy how they build perfect dam
Some folks have long believed it better to work with Mother Nature than against her. The times they are a changin’
Leave it to beavers 🕶👌
Beavers are adorable
Doing this in Idaho as well.
If you read this I hope you have a wonderful day today 💙✌
@desmeisme
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. You too
Thank you for doing stories like this! Together, we can save our natural wonders.
Loved the stop motion animation!! Just gave me some ideas for my next project !!!
@razzberytman
Жыл бұрын
Good luck! :)
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.
Fantastic!
It doesn't matter how many things we throw at drought issues. It starts with educating the public about water use.
When it comes to adaptation and mitigation efforts we should focus on nature-based solutions
Amazing
leave the beavers alone!!!
This is awesome!
This is amazing
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
Жыл бұрын
Global warming is a great excuse to not talk about local problems we created. ( not arguing the weather isn't changing)
A sign of hope.
These little creatures are really chill
Wonderful
Beautiful creatures
Perfect
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.
Poor beavers and what they have been through 🥺😢
I LOVE THIS.
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
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
I guess beavers are going to become a cottage industry now!
Beavers were never "pests". Humans didn't have enough knowledge to appreciate what beavers do.
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.
They are so tight knit with their families, I hope they keep them together when movin them...
Very cool
Beavers could probably help keeping garden lawns green and frequently watered, . . . . if you don't mind the smell.
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
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.
Shouldn't have been hunting and killing them for over a century
@shellysmith1037
Жыл бұрын
Lets not pick on native americans.
Lots of beavers by me in . Georgia
Beavers, more beneficial to the planet than humans!!! What a surprise.
So... what do things look like further downstream? It's not like this is creating more water, it's just withholding more upriver.
What a great project
Beavers can work 24X7 for free and create new habitats, we should be using them even more
❤Amazing.😊
Let's go beavers! #MIT
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.
That is so cool Beaver's and real neat how they build there dams😊🌝☺️
Once again proving, nature was perfect before we ruined it.
Putting back to the way it was who new !
The numbers of beavers that were trapped and skinned will never be known
to quote one of my favorite actors playing one of my favorite character's "uh...Life...uh, finds a way".
Wonderland
Everything is put here for a reason.
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
Жыл бұрын
Sullivan County? Bradford? 🦫
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).
thats pretty cool
You mean to tell me our environment does better when we don't mess with it? The heck you say.
Love this story.......everything on this planet is all connected
“Walking hotdogs” 😂
Me looking at the walking hotdog: 👁👄👁
They are adorable...
Shout out to them beavers ! 💯
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.