'Beavers are having a moment,' says Rachel Siegel founder of the nonprofit Illinois Beaver Alliance.
, which is being held virtually and will continue Sept. 20, speakers extolled the beaver’s ability to create healthier and more resilient ecosystems, at a time when climate change is expected to create new challenges.
“We cannot have our , our grasslands, our prairies, go up in smoke. We cannot watch as the water level drops lower and lower and lower in our lakes, our ponds and our reservoirs, and we cannot tolerate our cities, our communities, being consumed by massive flood waves,” Fairfax said. “This is our future though, if we don’t build more climate-resistant landscapes.
In times of flooding, a big surge of water can rip apart the banks of beaver-free streams and rivers. But when a surge hits a beaver-engineered flood plain, the water slows, spreads out over a greater area, and seeps into the damp soil, which absorbs and stores it.The stored water, in turn, helps insulate the flood plain against drought during a hot, dry summer, Fairfax said, keeping plants lush and green, rather than dry and ready to go up in smoke.
In data she collected on three 2020 Colorado wildfires, 40% of nonriver areas were found to be largely unburned. That figure rose to only 52% for river areas without beavers. But in the beaver-dammed river areas, the figure was an impressive 89%.
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