California says the beaver can be superhero in fighting climate change. What do you think of Beavers?

[Still-alive]

As California grapples with drought, a record heat wave and persistent wildfires, one state agency is turning to the beaver in its battle against climate change.

The large rodents, according to researchers, are resourceful engineers capable of increasing water storage and creating natural firebreaks with their dams.

On Tuesday, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife posted its first job listing for its new beaver restoration unit. The senior environmental scientist will help develop methods for “nature-based restoration solutions involving beavers” and artificial beaver dams.

The scientist will also help update the state’s policies on beavers, which in recent decades have been deemed a nuisance rodent responsible for flooding farmlands.

But with streams and rivers heating up or evaporating and wildfires blazing across the state, California is willing to reconsider the beaver’s role in the water cycle.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife is willing to bet at least $3 million over the next two years, with the creation of five new jobs meant to oversee a restoration program specifically for the North American beaver. The department did not respond to requests for comment about funding for the new positions, but in a budget proposal to the California Legislature the agency called beavers an important keystone species that could be used to combat climate change.

“It might be odd, but beavers are an untapped, creative climate solving hero that helps prevent the loss of biodiversity facing California,” the Department of Fish and Wildlife wrote in its May proposal.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-07/california-launches-beaver-restoration-program-to-fight-climate-change

So yeah the Beaver may help us out a lot in cali. your thoughts? What do you think of Beavers?

Leave it to Beaver anyone?

[purplepoppy]

They were reintroduced into the UK awhile back to a mixed welcome. Some saw they as beneficial as their dams help prevent flooding down stream. Farmers finding their crops underwater disagreed. Now England has joined Scotland in allowing ffarmers to shoot them. I think they're a good idea but like all reintroductions you've got to be selective where you put them.

[420Rachel]

Beavers are ADORABLE 😍 Who wouldn't want the little cuties saving the world?

[Still-alive]

i like to stuff em myself ;)

oh wait

[420Rachel]

Nooo!!! 😭😭😭

[Still-alive]

lol sophomoric joke. just had to make it! :P

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes they can be superheroes together in helping Climate Change

[Still-alive]

do you like beavers?

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@Still-alive Yeah they are cute

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)

[Zolly99999]

Evil little buggers... wrecking trees and flooding land

[Still-alive]

i think they're jusr misunderstood tbh

[Zolly99999]

We have a ton of them up here and I see their carnage all the time. I don't hate them though

[Still-alive]

welp feel free to send most of them down here then lol

[Zolly99999]

No problem lol.. when I go on a canoe trip I will see at least 50 of them in a week..

[Lyndsielee666]

Could really use some beavers right now tbh

[Still-alive]

yeah lets have a beaver infestation down here lol

[Lyndsielee666]

Poor things would probably die in hemet tbh lmfao

[TransAm85]

That’s interesting. We have a city here called Beaver Dam but it’s mostly farmers 😊

[Dinosaursandanime65]

YES, true equality at last. Poachers deserve the same amount of rights as a fetus

[monkeynutts]

Sounds like it's a worthwhile experiment, some farmers might be herding the wrong animals, you need water more than steak and cow farts.

[Wise4myage]

And here I thought you meant the other kind of beaver, lol.