They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...

Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...

Beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...