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  2. Environmental impacts of beavers - Wikipedia

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    Beavers make their way through the city by traversing the city's waterways. The city of Toronto government, and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) do not keep track of the number of beavers residing in Toronto, [81] although an estimate from 2001 places the local beaver population at several hundred. [80]

  3. Scientists use beavers to fight climate change - AOL

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    The beavers are then put into a bunker where they wait until they're released into drought- and fire-prone areas with the hopes that they'll create their own colonies.

  4. The Fascinating Reason Why Beavers Slap Their Tails - AOL

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    Beavers are associated with activity and environmental engineering. If you are “as busy as a beaver,” you are getting things done. These aquatic rodents spend most of their time in the water ...

  5. Beaver - Wikipedia

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    Beaver dams are more effective in trapping and slowly leaking water than man-made concrete dams. Lake-dwelling beavers do not need to build dams. [59] Open-water beaver lodge in Canada. Beavers make two types of lodges: bank lodges and open-water lodges. Bank lodges are burrows dug along the shore and covered in sticks.

  6. California aims to tap beavers, once viewed as a nuisance, to ...

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    For years, beavers have been treated as an annoyance for chewing down trees and shrubs and blocking up streams, leading to flooding in neighborhoods and farms. California recently changed its tune ...

  7. Beaver dam - Wikipedia

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    A beaver dam or beaver impoundment is a dam built by beavers; it creates a pond which protects against predators such as coyotes, wolves and bears, and holds their food during winter. These structures modify the natural environment in such a way that the overall ecosystem builds upon the change, making beavers a keystone species and ecosystem ...

  8. Niche construction - Wikipedia

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    Beavers hold a very specific biological niche in the ecosystem: constructing dams across river systems. Niche construction is the ecological process by which an organism alters its own (or another species') local environment. These alterations can be a physical change to the organism’s environment, or it can encompass the active movement of ...

  9. Beavers return to national park 'after 600 years' - AOL

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    It is hoped that Wilson and Willow will transform the ecosystem and their impact will be tracked.