I know a Canadian in BC. He has a new beaver in his area and he is thrilled. It’s bringing back wildlife. It’s building dams and a pond has formed. He has a beaver cam up. This beaver is very hard working. Trees felled and ecosystem recovery. It’s awesome and it came on its own. 😂
yupp, the same is happening with what used to be a man-made creek a few hundred meters behind my house in Berlin, Germany. Yes. that Berlin. it took less than half a year, now the place is full of wildlife. remarkable.
I found a beaver in a trap decades ago and his front paw was caught. It took me nearly an hour of trying to convince him I was there to help and the ONLY help around and he finally let me remove the trap and didn`t bite my hands off. He huffed at me and jumped in the water.
The waybthe river runs in was changed in Yellowstone when they reintroduced wolves. The wolves affected the deer populations, which had an effect on vegetation, which affected the flow of the river. It's kind of wild!! ❤
Yeah, but wolves have gotten lazy, there have been records that wolf packs have been following around mountain lions to the point that it’s annoying the lions so they are going and killing for the wolves so they leave them alone or bring them to food they already killed.
@@ditzieluv my husband told me about it, I think he said it was because food was getting hard for them to find, and the big cats could take down pray easier.
Wow! Thank you for spending time and resources to bring a small story to the attention it deserves. The longer we thrive, the more we learn that God's balance of nature is better than we give it credit for, most of the time. Keep it up.
I was born in 1975 and grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains in northeast NY. My family heritage on both sides of my parents were woodsman and farmers. Beavers were a wild animal that we left alone until their numbers got out of hand and they started being nuisances so we just trapped them and sold the furs every few years. Everyone knew not to repeat the mistake of practically wiping them out like back in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s.
I come from the state of the beaver 🦫! My Aunt and Uncle get funding from the US government to relocate nuisance Beavers where people want the salmon to come back to their streams. So yup they are beaver retrievers. They also help those vulnerable salmon Fry's a spot to grow up before heading to the ocean. So Ya they are very important.This is something my Aunt and Uncle do as a side hobby. They literally took it to the white house and got grants from the United States government to get the funding to do it!
SAME in the UK....we INTRODUCE Beavers.....the Rivers & creeks are now MANAGED, the run-off held within reason, more diverse wildlife etc!!! A REAL advance for the local areas...LUV 'em!
Correction: They build dams to form moats that protect them and their familes. Their hut is centrally located and forces predators to enter below the waterline, which they won't.
Some do, for instance, the Mink are known to go underwater and enter their huts to eat the babies. At least that's what I recall about the mink, its not a primary food source but it does happen.
In areas where beavers build fewer dams, as in states like Mississipi, they build their lodges into the banks. They build the same structure above, but dig into the earth bank for the interior chambers. The entrance is still underwater and out in the river or pond. They are so good at building an impenetrable roof that only a bulldozer can take it down.
Beaver homes are called lodges. The beaver lodge is usually in the water, but I've seen some in Canada along the bank of a larger, deeper river where they wouldn't have been able to build a lodge in the river. The entrance is still below the waterline.
Beavers do in fact make "nests", they are called Beaver Lodges. Beaver Lodges have the entrance under water to protect the Beavers inside. This is one of the reasons why they build their lodges.
Thanks for the video . Our town in northern Ontario , Canada is now breaking a few large beaver dams upstream of the river to give us water relief for water plant. Every fall we are not getting enough rain and good luck we have 18 miles of upstream river with many large beaver dams. We have never runout of water over the years
In CT, we have some problem beavers whose preferred damning locations result in flooding of roads or yards. These beavers are trapped, and after testing for diseases, get shipped to Montana, where ranchers value their skills at creating ponds that conserve water and keep grass lush for their herds.
@@stevelester6276 he talks a little about it around 14 minutes in but the video is more about the benefits beavers than issues with residing near them.
Unbelievable the way people like you think. Like ranchers are just so damn clueless they never thought of this. But thank God that this TH-camr figured out the truth.
The sad truth is, a good chunk of ranchers do know this cause they learned from their parents and grandparents that learned from their families mistakes in the 1700s. But most of the problematic areas aren’t really the fault of family owned land that produces for the locals but bigger companies that are only interested in pleasing shareholders, the longevity of the area be damned.
I saw a video on YT about this from a federal program (I forget which one), and it shocked me just how much the reintroduction of beavers helped restore damaged ecosystems. It makes me wonder what else we lost with the fur trade. With their reintroduction, perhaps we can restore the land to what it once was, creating new carbon sinks across the US.
From what I've read it wasn't really the fur trade because they were pretty good about managing their 'golden geese'. Story goes that what really happened is the UK didn't want the US taking the western US. They figured if the American trappers came then settlers would be close behind so they sent teams from Hudson's Bay Company to eliminate valuable fur bearing animals out of the West. They spent years on it and were shockingly effective. They wiped beaver so completely out of CA that for a long time it was believed there had never been beavers in California (which has always been hard for me to believe but that's what the books say). Later there were people in the government who saw them as impeding the efficient flow of water out of the hills into dams and rivers lower down in the watershed where the water could be used for hydro, irrigation, cities, etc. This was really dumb and lots of people knew this was a stupid idea including me as a kid. Beavers are pretty cool and they definitely can improve some things but I grew up working on ranches and around flood irrigation canals and laterals and they can also be a royal P.I.T.A. We left them alone higher up in parts of the ranch but eliminated them in a lot of areas. I really didn't enjoy that because I really like beavers- they are funny little f___ckers and it is fun to watch them over the course of a couple years in a creek bottom. They are way more clever than people give them credit - they have amazing instincts and inborn knowledge and/or ability to learn and figure things out. When you go to break up one of their dams it is just a nightmare - they're really tough. If you want to see another cool YT video look up "Idaho parachuting beavers" - It's rough film because it's 75 years old but it's a neat story. I don't remember if the film says it but there was one beaver they used in particular figuring out how to make the traps such that they would open on their own as they hit the ground. They did this repeatedly at the airstrip. They named him Geronimo and supposedly he eventually would just walk back into the trap - knowing that eventually he was just going to be caught by the smokejumpers and made to 'jump' again. They awarded him with multiple females when they finally dropped him into his final location. LOL
Breaking of beaver dams is a huge TH-cam video subject. But,, any farmer with an ounce of sense should recognize that all that nice fertile flat soil on his farm, every square inch of it is because beavers build dams. It backs up the water forming a habitat for insects, fish, amphibians, which attracts all types of mammals and over a few years,, the pond silts up,, nice, flat, level, fertile soil and the beavers move to a new better spot to build anew.
- same thing in Australia (Lots of damage has been done by poor land use.) - all the rivers were converted to fast flowing navigable channels - not wide flooding plains - so often... Capitalism wants all the land for all the productivity, all the time. (Socialism wants it all too, for slightly different reasons - absolute power corrupts..)
Beavers also build land and prevent erosion. Beavers coppice willows which increases the beavers’ food supply while creating strainers along stream banks which encourage the deposition of silt. Where beavers are active inches of soil will accumulate annually.
@cedhome7945 It is 2 years ago now, but a client wanted me to build for her and she chose a beautiful, perfectly flat spot, desert, AZ And the reason that was a perfectly flat beautiful spot where the desert plants bloomed,, it was the low point in 40 acres. That's why it was flat,, and had better vegetation. I did convince her to move her desired spot. It nearly did cost me the contract,, the other two builders were perfectly willing to site the house exactly where she wanted it. I wasn't. The first lesson I try, and fail, to teach designers is the mistake of the house facing the street. Every lot is different. But what the house should face is its environment,, Where is the sun? Where is the normal wind direction? Where is the normal storm wind direction? If you have livestock,, would it not be nice to have a tank? (Western term meaning a place, a pond, that holds water for livestock to drink.) Not just that,, beavers MADE the land you farm. There was a beaver dam there,, it held back the water until it silted in, full and flat with rich fertile soil.. And then the beaver goes looking for a new place to dam. Most of Montana that has soil,, is because of millions of years of beavers. ANY farm land in Vermont is only there because beavers silted in their old ponds and then built another. Especially livestock paddocks,, and agricultural operations, beavers are like having red king snakes in the dairy barns,,, nothing but benefit Why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs,, one sit down dinner?
Its houses and roads built where they shouldnt be and roads with inadequate drainage under or inadequate height that are the problem. FEMA helps people rebuild on the same spot that then floods again and again instead of moving homes off the flood plains. Beavers many small dams in the uplands can slow water and soil loss in runoff. They can then prevent the much greater flooding in the long run. To do that we might need to move some homes homes and raise roads. Ive also seen roads that beavers try to use as dams so water runs over. Its usually not much water- but people freak out! Cant channels with cattle grates over be left across the road to give water a place to go thats easier to clean? Ive also seen poles driven back upstream from the roadway . They then put a recording of water flowing on that spot and the beavers build the dam there- drawn to fix the "leak" they heard! Then they were able to leave the beavers in place. It would also make sense to lay new drain pipes over the road add more process over and pave so you build the road higher. Im sure in time, the road will have to come up again as beavers build yet higher flooding more acreage. Thats good though. Thats what you want!
I wondered why you always kept your face covered up but I'm sure you have your reasons don't matter you have great videos there not drawn out very interesting and have a great voice for them. Thanks so much and God bless you and your family!!!
Amazing little creatures! We have to work with nature and provide for their needs too. This is happening with Buffaloes and foxes and all sorts of animals. Statues dropped into the oceans are stopping trawlers dragging the ocean floor and destroying all sea life too. Education, education Bravo . Great video.
It's called rewilding - the rehabilitation of lands, returning the area(s) to their original uncultivated state. With more excellent videos such as this, maybe it can gain the momentum necessary to stop desertification. Thanks you for the excellent post...
The Canadian park service has the answer to beaver dams causing unwanted flooding. They tear a dam down to the height they can live with. Then put a large diameter pipe into the water. They add a cage to the pipe on the up river side of the dam to keep the pipe clear. The final step is to put an elbow pointing up with a removable plug in it. The beavers rebuild the dam with the pipe in the middle of the dam. The dam fills back up with water and eventually it gets too much water behind it. The park service unscrews the plug and when the water stops flowing they replace the plug. In Butte, MT I watched a valley floor turn green when beavers moved back into the area after the water was cleaned up. I was surprised how far away from the dams the greenery move up the sides of the valley. Deer started moving into the area after the beavers. It was cool to walk down the walking path and wander into an area where the deer munched on the grass while you walked by them.
In our area, beavers moved too close to people, so the forest service relocated them a mile or so away. Everyone is happy, including the beavers and the people.
For Christmas you should do a 2022 vibe video. We need Steve!! That energy, those meme cuts, the big eyes. Man those where the days of your peek video! But at least can we have Steve visit for Christmas♡♡
We always allowed the beavers to have a certain amount of acres of our property. But it is work to keep them from expanding too much. They bring in so much wildlife & we love the beauty of their ponds.
You can also idwntify ancient beaver dams by finding piles of cobble sized rocks where dams once were. I found a huge old dam up in the hills by noticing what a great place that was for a pond. After I noticed all the stones making up what looked like an old broken dam that may have been there in the past. After reading about beaver, I realized the stones were all a uniform size and semi rounded. About the size and shape a beaver could move! When I went back to look again, I realized how old this dam must be. One day I hope beavers will come back there! Without other small dams above capturing water, the water below might not be running enough to entice them to stay. That dam might have been from not long after the last ice age ended! Over time thousands of stones had been rolled into place and the dam grew higher and higher. Look around your neighborhood. There might be others near you!
There's places in the Wasteland where the forgotten highway old culverts have failed. And you do see more greenery around them. Much like with the beavers it's just the water build up that helps slow down the catastrophic erosion. I've often wondered how many places could actually sustained a population of beavers. Because we can't count on mega dams like Lake Mead anymore. They lose too much to evaporation and archaic water rights contracts.
well but then all of the water cused calfona to bacly have massive flood issues instad form too much water they took from lake mead during a very very raniy decade that was the a unsuanly high amonut of neveda rainny deacde that started to down calfonua bescue calfonu didn't aprobtly use all teh water they where given and are now qute litraly drowing in lake meads water right now.
Wood is hydrophilic also. It absorbs water out of the air. It also absorbs nitrogen out of water and filters it. I tell people to put logs into the waters edge. So many people "clean up" and pull them out! Turtles love logs at the waters edge. You see them lined up on the them catching some early spring sun. Felling trees into the water like beavers do creates snags! -Those favorite haunts of the big fish that are so challenging to cast near!
Very interesting. Hope someone that counts will hear about this. Although, they probably already know. It gripes me when people complain about animals in their backyard after they’ve turn down their trees, etc-their homes. We as a whole don’t think things through. I think it’s called greed.
9:53 actually it does matter because shade means cooler weather which keeps tons of water from evaporating, which helps keep more water in their dams for protection. behavior like that may seem random in isolation but you have to think of the entire ecosystem as the natives did. this is why shade in the desert can be the difference between life and death
When will people realize things worked so well before due to how nature developed and evolved. Detroying the environment, landscape, and creatures, messing that balance up shouldn't be a difficult thing to understand.
I wonder how someone could go about doing something like this. Buying 80 or 160 acres in the middle of a somewhat arid part of North America in an area that has been desertified over the last couple of hundred years and introduce beavers. I would love to be part of some kind of small scale project.
Somewhere dry in the western US on the slope of the mountains, where you find a creek that runs with melt water in spring and dries up in summer. Relocate a family of beavers and let them go to work. When the population grows large enough young beavers will wander off and start a new dam somewhere else, often up or down the creek. In this way you might affect a very large area after a long time.
It’s so helpful to restore the ecosystem and every thing benefits. If you see a tree right next to the stream, and want to keep the tree, protect the tree and not kill the beaver. Otters come back. Fires decreased when the land is flooded.
It's worth bearing mind that, in some parts of the world with ample rainfall, beavers building dams can result in valuable forests and farmland suffering destructive flooding. The videos uploaded by people like Kenislovas and msTECH86 show many examples of this.
That destructive flooding is adding new fertility to the soil. Eastern Iowa put in a damn on the Iowa River to control flooding around Musctatine farms. Before, the farmers didn't need to furtilize their melon feilds. Now they do and the flavors changed and not for the better.
I saw the destruction of a small orchard by two beavers, the first to invade the region for 110 years. Saw the cuts, drag marks, one tree halfway in the 6 inch deep clear creek water. Four more trees and the beginning of a dam with over a foot of water later, I saw my first wild up close beaver, paddle tail, all it's splendor in speckled shade shadows sitting beside one of the trees' trunks cut into previously. They were all young sweet sapped pecan trees planted in three rows parallel with the creek and within a climax old growth riparian forest of a varied deciduous mix. They all flourished in the gaps among the elms, oaks, hawthornes, maples, walnuts, hackberries, cottonwood, and a couple of escaped (Pinus pinus) pine trees. The beavers definately preferred the pecans. They only chopped through three different types that were handily right on the edge of the creek and twice to three times the diameter of the pecans, some of which were more than 60 meters from their second dam site. The beavers abandoned the first dam location when their choice big creek-bank tree felled in the wrong direction. He watched us. We watched him. He waddled up the hill. He grabbed a tree by the cut end and started tractor pulling it to his dam site. We left, we had things to do. We came back a few hours later, it was shady and cooler. The tree's branches had gotten caught on the upright trunks of uncut forest trees. But he had gotten another and was processing the twigs and branches into his dam. Water still about 12 inches deep. Next Day: live traps, relocation, and lucky it was summer, no need for beaver hats.
Beavers are uniquely created and designed! They're not an accident, nor did they evolve. They have a purpose but must be managed by us, their caretakers.
The "Space Beaver Dam" in Wood Buffalo National park of Canada, is north of Lake Claire, (which is in the province of Alberta) not Lake St. Claire. Lake St. Claire is a lake that is located in the Great Lakes basin, between the State of Michigan and the Province of Ontario Canada.
great work.. just noticed that river in pickering north yorkshire isn't the river Severn its the river Derwent and pickering beck where the beavers are thanks for the videos
It’s always the Europeans. It’s littered in American, Australia and Canadian history that lands and resources before abused and common needs become ore challenging than it really needs to be. Private businesses are taking up too much space and resources and the public is constantly at the mercy of this “private” society that keeps ruining the beauty of our land. The public needs to way more responsible than the rich and wealthy, but they don’t get paid for the hard work unless people make the workers make a small business in collaboration with other small businesses making a oligopoly that combats monopolies of our nation
Even though beavers would do better restoring desert habit vs cattle. If we people were to drill deep 2inch bore holes into desert lands (something like 10 per acre), and add animals like leafcutter ants and or mealworms. The desert would green-up just has lush and bountiful. Beavers do better improving creeks and streams.
People back then made such huge mistakes with the habitats. Here in Minnesota, the new residents nearly wiped out dear and beaver ( and who knows what else!). It took 2 generations for the animals to come back. My grandmother had a newspaper article that said that someone tracked a deer up north. They were so excited about it that it was in the news!
Beavers build dams to protect the entrances, which is is underwater, to their lodges. Beavers are coming back in Oregon. can see their dams on I-84. also coming back in remote areas of Idaho. and are protected this time.
I had some friends that were beavers, in the mountains of NW Connecticut I had a pogo marsh full of beaver, I often watched them working on their dams,,,🦦🦨🦡🦥🐀🐿🦇🦔🦆🦅🦂🦟🐓🦃but no beavers😢❤❤❤❤❤
I built a small, about 4 foot wide, 3 foot tall beaver inspired dam for a drinking water supply pond in about 2010 and the thing is still there, wish I could have just rented a couple beavers
Das bestätigt auch, dass die Wälder wieder nasser werden müssen und die Moore zurückkommen müssen. Sehr interessantes Video. Das werde ih gerne teilen. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland. Die Maskierung verstehe ich allerdings nicht.
Thank you so much. Everyone needs to understand that the natural landscape of the US was vastly different than today.
I know a Canadian in BC. He has a new beaver in his area and he is thrilled. It’s bringing back wildlife. It’s building dams and a pond has formed. He has a beaver cam up. This beaver is very hard working. Trees felled and ecosystem recovery. It’s awesome and it came on its own. 😂
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yupp, the same is happening with what used to be a man-made creek a few hundred meters behind my house in Berlin, Germany. Yes. that Berlin. it took less than half a year, now the place is full of wildlife. remarkable.
@ thank the Lord.
The most important part of this is how beaver dams restore aquifers.
- Phoenix, Arizona
Bevers build the fertile valleys,by slowing down the rivers & streams, letting the silt settle.
"But 1 billion beavers fart, so no thanks" -the Green New Deal.
Beavers are fascinating creatures and this video was very interesting, showing the good beavers can do in the right environment.
"Ofcourse nobody back then thought about the consequences" We're still very good at that.
To this day none thinks about the consequences of literally anything the world is dying because of that
The fun part is that the bad consequences are usually the fault of a humans decision/plan;)
The ccp is allegedly decimating the ocean near Alaska with their factory fishing.
They obviously don't care about conservation.
@@thebaconsmell9113 THAT'S why there are regulations - until a DEREGULATION POTUS comes along.
They still aren't!
I found a beaver in a trap decades ago and his front paw was caught. It took me nearly an hour of trying to convince him I was there to help and the ONLY help around and he finally let me remove the trap and didn`t bite my hands off. He huffed at me and jumped in the water.
❤♥️ U for what U did..😊
Thank you for being a beaver hero!
A kind act that was actually illegal. Glad you weren't caught by the trapper.
"Stupid human took forever, ugh""
Folk just admit to criminal acts on the ole interwebs.... wild.
The waybthe river runs in was changed in Yellowstone when they reintroduced wolves. The wolves affected the deer populations, which had an effect on vegetation, which affected the flow of the river. It's kind of wild!! ❤
I promise I wasn't drunk when I wrote this 🤣🤣🤣 I was just super tired 😴 but hopefully people understood what I was trying to say 😅
Terraforming in progress
Yeah, but wolves have gotten lazy, there have been records that wolf packs have been following around mountain lions to the point that it’s annoying the lions so they are going and killing for the wolves so they leave them alone or bring them to food they already killed.
@@whitneyparedes8000 oh wow!! I'll have to read up about that
@@ditzieluv my husband told me about it, I think he said it was because food was getting hard for them to find, and the big cats could take down pray easier.
The infamous drying of the North American aquafers could hv been prevented by Beavers
If they prevented too much groundwater pumping.....
Hopefully people in charge will wake up and use methods like this to start repairing the damage.
Wow! Thank you for spending time and resources to bring a small story to the attention it deserves. The longer we thrive, the more we learn that God's balance of nature is better than we give it credit for, most of the time. Keep it up.
The way you frequently thank us for accepting your annominity is really kind and most comforting!... Thank you, ** for your commitment
This comment is the only reason I’m not turning this off after 7 seconds
given the most recent assasination, you are very wise.
@ Hahahaha what?
I was born in 1975 and grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains in northeast NY. My family heritage on both sides of my parents were woodsman and farmers. Beavers were a wild animal that we left alone until their numbers got out of hand and they started being nuisances so we just trapped them and sold the furs every few years. Everyone knew not to repeat the mistake of practically wiping them out like back in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s.
I come from the state of the beaver 🦫! My Aunt and Uncle get funding from the US government to relocate nuisance Beavers where people want the salmon to come back to their streams. So yup they are beaver retrievers. They also help those vulnerable salmon Fry's a spot to grow up before heading to the ocean. So Ya they are very important.This is something my Aunt and Uncle do as a side hobby. They literally took it to the white house and got grants from the United States government to get the funding to do it!
Thats really great!
Write a book about them!
Thats cool
Hot dam 🦫
Great idea. 💙This video made me wonder if we could add a beaver to our local creek.🤔
SAME in the UK....we INTRODUCE Beavers.....the Rivers & creeks are now MANAGED, the run-off held within reason, more diverse wildlife etc!!! A REAL advance for the local areas...LUV 'em!
Correction: They build dams to form moats that protect them and their familes.
Their hut is centrally located and forces predators to enter below the waterline, which they won't.
Some do, for instance, the Mink are known to go underwater and enter their huts to eat the babies. At least that's what I recall about the mink, its not a primary food source but it does happen.
So you corrected him to say the same thing he eventually said for the "why do they build it" question?
In areas where beavers build fewer dams, as in states like Mississipi, they build their lodges into the banks. They build the same structure above, but dig into the earth bank for the interior chambers. The entrance is still underwater and out in the river or pond. They are so good at building an impenetrable roof that only a bulldozer can take it down.
Beaver homes are called lodges. The beaver lodge is usually in the water, but I've seen some in Canada along the bank of a larger, deeper river where they wouldn't have been able to build a lodge in the river. The entrance is still below the waterline.
Beavers do in fact make "nests", they are called Beaver Lodges.
Beaver Lodges have the entrance under water to protect the Beavers inside. This is one of the reasons why they build their lodges.
Reminds me of using goats for vegetation control. Also, love the changing backgrounds! So creative! 👍
Thanks for the video . Our town in northern Ontario , Canada is now breaking a few large beaver dams upstream of the river to give us water relief for water plant. Every fall we are not getting enough rain and good luck we have 18 miles of upstream river with many large beaver dams. We have never runout of water over the years
In CT, we have some problem beavers whose preferred damning locations result in flooding of roads or yards. These beavers are trapped, and after testing for diseases, get shipped to Montana, where ranchers value their skills at creating ponds that conserve water and keep grass lush for their herds.
Don't build your homes and roads within the flood plain.
Thank you. The vid concentrates on cherry picked examples ignoring the destruction and damage these things can cause
@@stevelester6276 he talks a little about it around 14 minutes in but the video is more about the benefits beavers than issues with residing near them.
We have a family damning up our little creek, it's fun watching them! Interesting to see them swim out into the bay looking for other waterways!
More Ranchers need too see this
Unbelievable the way people like you think. Like ranchers are just so damn clueless they never thought of this. But thank God that this TH-camr figured out the truth.
@@jeffa847 NO I never said that , they just have their own way.
@jeffa847 Ranchers need to see and study this video.
The sad truth is, a good chunk of ranchers do know this cause they learned from their parents and grandparents that learned from their families mistakes in the 1700s. But most of the problematic areas aren’t really the fault of family owned land that produces for the locals but bigger companies that are only interested in pleasing shareholders, the longevity of the area be damned.
I saw a video on YT about this from a federal program (I forget which one), and it shocked me just how much the reintroduction of beavers helped restore damaged ecosystems. It makes me wonder what else we lost with the fur trade. With their reintroduction, perhaps we can restore the land to what it once was, creating new carbon sinks across the US.
From what I've read it wasn't really the fur trade because they were pretty good about managing their 'golden geese'.
Story goes that what really happened is the UK didn't want the US taking the western US. They figured if the American trappers came then settlers would be close behind so they sent teams from Hudson's Bay Company to eliminate valuable fur bearing animals out of the West. They spent years on it and were shockingly effective. They wiped beaver so completely out of CA that for a long time it was believed there had never been beavers in California (which has always been hard for me to believe but that's what the books say).
Later there were people in the government who saw them as impeding the efficient flow of water out of the hills into dams and rivers lower down in the watershed where the water could be used for hydro, irrigation, cities, etc. This was really dumb and lots of people knew this was a stupid idea including me as a kid.
Beavers are pretty cool and they definitely can improve some things but I grew up working on ranches and around flood irrigation canals and laterals and they can also be a royal P.I.T.A. We left them alone higher up in parts of the ranch but eliminated them in a lot of areas. I really didn't enjoy that because I really like beavers- they are funny little f___ckers and it is fun to watch them over the course of a couple years in a creek bottom. They are way more clever than people give them credit - they have amazing instincts and inborn knowledge and/or ability to learn and figure things out. When you go to break up one of their dams it is just a nightmare - they're really tough.
If you want to see another cool YT video look up "Idaho parachuting beavers" - It's rough film because it's 75 years old but it's a neat story. I don't remember if the film says it but there was one beaver they used in particular figuring out how to make the traps such that they would open on their own as they hit the ground. They did this repeatedly at the airstrip. They named him Geronimo and supposedly he eventually would just walk back into the trap - knowing that eventually he was just going to be caught by the smokejumpers and made to 'jump' again. They awarded him with multiple females when they finally dropped him into his final location. LOL
Very interesting, at least we have unscrewed some of the messed we have made! But we have a long way to go!
Breaking of beaver dams is a huge TH-cam video subject. But,, any farmer with an ounce of sense should recognize that all that nice fertile flat soil on his farm, every square inch of it is because beavers build dams. It backs up the water forming a habitat for insects, fish, amphibians, which attracts all types of mammals and over a few years,, the pond silts up,, nice, flat, level, fertile soil and the beavers move to a new better spot to build anew.
- same thing in Australia (Lots of damage has been done by poor land use.) - all the rivers were converted to fast flowing navigable channels - not wide flooding plains - so often... Capitalism wants all the land for all the productivity, all the time. (Socialism wants it all too, for slightly different reasons - absolute power corrupts..)
Beavers also build land and prevent erosion. Beavers coppice willows which increases the beavers’ food supply while creating strainers along stream banks which encourage the deposition of silt. Where beavers are active inches of soil will accumulate annually.
All good until you get flooding in your house or livestock paddocks
@cedhome7945 It is 2 years ago now, but a client wanted me to build for her and she chose a beautiful, perfectly flat spot, desert, AZ And the reason that was a perfectly flat beautiful spot where the desert plants bloomed,, it was the low point in 40 acres. That's why it was flat,, and had better vegetation. I did convince her to move her desired spot. It nearly did cost me the contract,, the other two builders were perfectly willing to site the house exactly where she wanted it. I wasn't.
The first lesson I try, and fail, to teach designers is the mistake of the house facing the street. Every lot is different. But what the house should face is its environment,, Where is the sun? Where is the normal wind direction? Where is the normal storm wind direction? If you have livestock,, would it not be nice to have a tank? (Western term meaning a place, a pond, that holds water for livestock to drink.) Not just that,, beavers MADE the land you farm. There was a beaver dam there,, it held back the water until it silted in, full and flat with rich fertile soil.. And then the beaver goes looking for a new place to dam. Most of Montana that has soil,, is because of millions of years of beavers. ANY farm land in Vermont is only there because beavers silted in their old ponds and then built another. Especially livestock paddocks,, and agricultural operations, beavers are like having red king snakes in the dairy barns,,, nothing but benefit Why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs,, one sit down dinner?
Its houses and roads built where they shouldnt be and roads with inadequate drainage under or inadequate height that are the problem.
FEMA helps people rebuild on the same spot that then floods again and again instead of moving homes off the flood plains.
Beavers many small dams in the uplands can slow water and soil loss in runoff.
They can then prevent the much greater flooding in the long run. To do that we might need to move some homes homes and raise roads.
Ive also seen roads that beavers try to use as dams so water runs over.
Its usually not much water- but people freak out!
Cant channels with cattle grates over be left across the road to give water a place to go thats easier to clean?
Ive also seen poles driven back upstream from the roadway .
They then put a recording of water flowing on that spot and the beavers build the dam there- drawn to fix the "leak" they heard!
Then they were able to leave the beavers in place.
It would also make sense to lay new drain pipes over the road add more process over and pave so you build the road higher. Im sure in time, the road will have to come up again as beavers build yet higher flooding more acreage.
Thats good though. Thats what you want!
Appreciate the good information from Oregon the Beaver State..😎
Hey me too. Go beavers
I found a fossil beaver skull in the Mojave desert a few years back
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Sorry, couldn't help myself. Lol. Honestly i wouldve been surprised to find a beaver skull in the desert
The beavers were the first American keystone species. Beavers are needed no doubt.
I wondered why you always kept your face covered up but I'm sure you have your reasons don't matter you have great videos there not drawn out very interesting and have a great voice for them. Thanks so much and God bless you and your family!!!
I truly believe the beavers should be introduced throughout this country and anywhere else where they used to be.
Totally agree.
I like beavers. They create nice little pools.
Until they flood out your farm, house, car ,roads great if they stay where they belong
They also build huge gas stations and sell amazing jerkies.
Excellent video, plus I enjoy the style of presentation
Beavers are important to our survival.
Life itself depends on the Beavs 🦫
In this house, the Beaver will always be a Hero!!
Humanity has evolved symbiotically with beavers...aling with everything else.
I Love this existence.
Every day so exciting.
Great work, I'd like to see more of this all around the world. Thank you
Amazing little creatures! We have to work with nature and provide for their needs too. This is happening with Buffaloes and foxes and all sorts of animals. Statues dropped into the oceans are stopping trawlers dragging the ocean floor and destroying all sea life too. Education, education Bravo . Great video.
Animals can teach us alot if you just sit and observe
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So interesting! Great info we need to know about our nature, our animals.
It's called rewilding - the rehabilitation of lands, returning the area(s) to their original uncultivated state. With more excellent videos such as this, maybe it can gain the momentum necessary to stop desertification. Thanks you for the excellent post...
He said "You owe me a 'like'. "
I paid my bill. 👍
Gods creations are wonderful...HE knew what he was doing when everything was created. Interesting story, I appreciated it ❤
Are you also in awe about the malaria parasite and the flu viruses?
@PaulaBean EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS RIGHTEOUS SATAN
The Canadian park service has the answer to beaver dams causing unwanted flooding. They tear a dam down to the height they can live with. Then put a large diameter pipe into the water. They add a cage to the pipe on the up river side of the dam to keep the pipe clear. The final step is to put an elbow pointing up with a removable plug in it. The beavers rebuild the dam with the pipe in the middle of the dam. The dam fills back up with water and eventually it gets too much water behind it. The park service unscrews the plug and when the water stops flowing they replace the plug.
In Butte, MT I watched a valley floor turn green when beavers moved back into the area after the water was cleaned up. I was surprised how far away from the dams the greenery move up the sides of the valley. Deer started moving into the area after the beavers. It was cool to walk down the walking path and wander into an area where the deer munched on the grass while you walked by them.
I love all animals, beverages are adorable, loving them to.
Yeah, I love beverages too. I drink coffee, tea, milo and cocoa also.
Hey I just gave you your first like ever that was a great vid bro thanks
Just imagine if people would leave well enough alone
In our area, beavers moved too close to people, so the forest service relocated them a mile or so away. Everyone is happy, including the beavers and the people.
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For Christmas you should do a 2022 vibe video. We need Steve!! That energy, those meme cuts, the big eyes. Man those where the days of your peek video! But at least can we have Steve visit for Christmas♡♡
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I talk about this topic all the time with friends. 👍
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We always allowed the beavers to have a certain amount of acres of our property. But it is work to keep them from expanding too much. They bring in so much wildlife & we love the beauty of their ponds.
That earned not only a like, but a sub.
Well done, WATOP! 😁
Hey this is an important video! I hope you can get this posted. All I he time!!
So many thanks for making this video…!
All good as long as its not your land when they flood it. This needs to be a balance between homes, farming and ecology
I wish I had land with a stream, and had this problem!
Love the channel! 🦫
This isnt the usual beaver content i consume, but its cheaper than OF
The beaver/mosquito relationship needs more study. It's like beavers use mosquitoes to keep people away.
I like wow... lots of work went into this.. thanks..
You can also idwntify ancient beaver dams by finding piles of cobble sized rocks where dams once were. I found a huge old dam up in the hills by noticing what a great place that was for a pond. After I noticed all the stones making up what looked like an old broken dam that may have been there in the past. After reading about beaver, I realized the stones were all a uniform size and semi rounded. About the size and shape a beaver could move! When I went back to look again, I realized how old this dam must be.
One day I hope beavers will come back there! Without other small dams above capturing water, the water below might not be running enough to entice them to stay.
That dam might have been from not long after the last ice age ended!
Over time thousands of stones had been rolled into place and the dam grew higher and higher.
Look around your neighborhood.
There might be others near you!
The little buggars are on the 5 cent Canadian coin
Being a forth generation Oregonian. (I am old). I have seen what use to be never a worry about water and vegetation become desolate lands.
There's places in the Wasteland where the forgotten highway old culverts have failed. And you do see more greenery around them. Much like with the beavers it's just the water build up that helps slow down the catastrophic erosion.
I've often wondered how many places could actually sustained a population of beavers.
Because we can't count on mega dams like Lake Mead anymore. They lose too much to evaporation and archaic water rights contracts.
well but then all of the water cused calfona to bacly have massive flood issues instad form too much water they took from lake mead during a very very raniy decade that was the a unsuanly high amonut of neveda rainny deacde that started to down calfonua bescue calfonu didn't aprobtly use all teh water they where given and are now qute litraly drowing in lake meads water right now.
Wood is hydrophilic also. It absorbs water out of the air. It also absorbs nitrogen out of water and filters it.
I tell people to put logs into the waters edge. So many people "clean up" and pull them out!
Turtles love logs at the waters edge. You see them lined up on the them catching some early spring sun.
Felling trees into the water like beavers do creates snags! -Those favorite haunts of the big fish that are so challenging to cast near!
I never realized how beaver-shaped Hawaii is.
Very interesting. Hope someone that counts will hear about this. Although, they probably already know. It gripes me when people complain about animals in their backyard after they’ve turn down their trees, etc-their homes. We as a whole don’t think things through. I think it’s called greed.
9:53 actually it does matter because shade means cooler weather which keeps tons of water from evaporating, which helps keep more water in their dams for protection. behavior like that may seem random in isolation but you have to think of the entire ecosystem as the natives did. this is why shade in the desert can be the difference between life and death
When will people realize things worked so well before due to how nature developed and evolved. Detroying the environment, landscape, and creatures, messing that balance up shouldn't be a difficult thing to understand.
The original settlers saw all those Beavers and said "Hats!"
I wonder how someone could go about doing something like this. Buying 80 or 160 acres in the middle of a somewhat arid part of North America in an area that has been desertified over the last couple of hundred years and introduce beavers. I would love to be part of some kind of small scale project.
Somewhere dry in the western US on the slope of the mountains, where you find a creek that runs with melt water in spring and dries up in summer. Relocate a family of beavers and let them go to work.
When the population grows large enough young beavers will wander off and start a new dam somewhere else, often up or down the creek. In this way you might affect a very large area after a long time.
Who knew that nature takes care of itself if you leave it alone❤️
It’s so helpful to restore the ecosystem and every thing benefits. If you see a tree right next to the stream, and want to keep the tree, protect the tree and not kill the beaver. Otters come back. Fires decreased when the land is flooded.
Whooping Cranes in that Wood-Buffalo refuge in Canada, probably thanks to Beavers.
Well done Mr and Mrs Beaver.
Let me be the first to say let's make beavers great again. What could possibly go wrong?
a lot can go wrong if you dont maintain a balance
Sounds like a great idea with the best of intentions. /s
Thank you for letting us know about beavers.
It's worth bearing mind that, in some parts of the world with ample rainfall, beavers building dams can result in valuable forests and farmland suffering destructive flooding. The videos uploaded by people like Kenislovas and msTECH86 show many examples of this.
That destructive flooding is adding new fertility to the soil. Eastern Iowa put in a damn on the Iowa River to control flooding around Musctatine farms. Before, the farmers didn't need to furtilize their melon feilds. Now they do and the flavors changed and not for the better.
@@MarjenaSloanexactly! Flooding is part of the soil renewal system and I say this as a river bottom farmer.
I saw the destruction of a small orchard by two beavers, the first to invade the region for 110 years.
Saw the cuts, drag marks, one tree halfway in the 6 inch deep clear creek water.
Four more trees and the beginning of a dam with over a foot of water later, I saw my first wild up close beaver, paddle tail, all it's splendor in speckled shade shadows sitting beside one of the trees' trunks cut into previously. They were all young sweet sapped pecan trees planted in three rows parallel with the creek and within a climax old growth riparian forest of a varied deciduous mix.
They all flourished in the gaps among the elms, oaks, hawthornes, maples, walnuts, hackberries, cottonwood, and a couple of escaped (Pinus pinus) pine trees.
The beavers definately preferred the pecans. They only chopped through three different types that were handily right on the edge of the creek and twice to three times the diameter of the pecans, some of which were more than 60 meters from their second dam site.
The beavers abandoned the first dam location when their choice big creek-bank tree felled in the wrong direction.
He watched us. We watched him.
He waddled up the hill.
He grabbed a tree by the cut end and started tractor pulling it to his dam site.
We left, we had things to do. We came back a few hours later, it was shady and cooler.
The tree's branches had gotten caught on the upright trunks of uncut forest trees. But he had gotten another and was processing the twigs and branches into his dam. Water still about 12 inches deep.
Next Day: live traps, relocation, and lucky it was summer, no need for beaver hats.
You could have put some wire mesh around the pecan trees and the beavers would have left them alone.
Would've given a like but the beavers were relocated. Why?
Love your content, and the anonymity, but what does WATOP stand for? Is that anonymous too?
In his intro section, there is a computer screen that says, "We are top"...
Idk if yall know but, Winona's got herself a big brown beaver and she shows it off to all her friends...
Beavers are uniquely created and designed!
They're not an accident, nor did they evolve. They have a purpose but must be managed by us, their caretakers.
AWESOME THANK YOU Mr. M-S you are amazing.......
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Salute to those eager beavers! 🙂🙏
The "Space Beaver Dam" in Wood Buffalo National park of Canada, is north of Lake Claire, (which is in the province of Alberta) not Lake St. Claire. Lake St. Claire is a lake that is located in the Great Lakes basin, between the State of Michigan and the Province of Ontario Canada.
great work.. just noticed that river in pickering north yorkshire isn't the river Severn
its the river Derwent and pickering beck where the beavers are
thanks for the videos
Great Reporting 👍🏻
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It’s always the Europeans. It’s littered in American, Australia and Canadian history that lands and resources before abused and common needs become ore challenging than it really needs to be.
Private businesses are taking up too much space and resources and the public is constantly at the mercy of this “private” society that keeps ruining the beauty of our land.
The public needs to way more responsible than the rich and wealthy, but they don’t get paid for the hard work unless people make the workers make a small business in collaboration with other small businesses making a oligopoly that combats monopolies of our nation
Even though beavers would do better restoring desert habit vs cattle. If we people were to drill deep 2inch bore holes into desert lands (something like 10 per acre), and add animals like leafcutter ants and or mealworms. The desert would green-up just has lush and bountiful.
Beavers do better improving creeks and streams.
Great report
People back then made such huge mistakes with the habitats. Here in Minnesota, the new residents nearly wiped out dear and beaver ( and who knows what else!). It took 2 generations for the animals to come back. My grandmother had a newspaper article that said that someone tracked a deer up north. They were so excited about it that it was in the news!
Next to humans no creature constructs its environment more than the Beaver
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Remainder, mother nature, knows best.....
Beavers build dams to protect the entrances, which is is underwater, to their lodges. Beavers are coming back in Oregon. can see their dams on I-84. also coming back in remote areas of Idaho. and are protected this time.
🇨🇦And this is a better reason to treasure our national animal 🦫 (Castor canadensis)❤
Beavers are a keystone species
I had some friends that were beavers, in the mountains of NW Connecticut I had a pogo marsh full of beaver, I often watched them working on their dams,,,🦦🦨🦡🦥🐀🐿🦇🦔🦆🦅🦂🦟🐓🦃but no beavers😢❤❤❤❤❤
That was a really good episode.
I built a small, about 4 foot wide, 3 foot tall beaver inspired dam for a drinking water supply pond in about 2010 and the thing is still there, wish I could have just rented a couple beavers
Das bestätigt auch, dass die Wälder wieder nasser werden müssen und die Moore zurückkommen müssen. Sehr interessantes Video. Das werde ih gerne teilen. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland.
Die Maskierung verstehe ich allerdings nicht.
In Wayne County Kentucky, the water company wiped out an entire colony of beavers.
A water company wiped out an entire colony of beavers. Great job. Losers