Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes

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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2024

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  • @Theendofeverything7036
    @Theendofeverything7036 2 роки тому +115

    FINALLY beavers are getting RESPECT!

  • @thomasperkins7318
    @thomasperkins7318 2 роки тому +268

    I've admired these marvelous creatures for years.
    We humans could learn a lot from these virtuous mammals.

    • @VesperAegis
      @VesperAegis 2 роки тому

      Me too. That Vigliotti is rockin' it.

    • @keithbell9348
      @keithbell9348 2 роки тому +4

      We humans can do no better than learn from EVERYTHING in the natural world.

    • @allanthomas332
      @allanthomas332 2 роки тому +4

      Leave it to beaver’s they know what they doing

    • @keithbell9348
      @keithbell9348 2 роки тому +4

      @@allanthomas332 They must look at us as if we are as dumb as rocks..

    • @Drskopf
      @Drskopf 2 роки тому +4

      The natives knew!! But nobody listened in those years

  • @nylirama
    @nylirama 2 роки тому +337

    This proves to me once again that there is no nuisances in mother nature. Everything has a very important role. Everything is interconnected even if we don't know how. In my opinion, humans are the only nuisance that keeps messing the planet up over and over again.

    • @thomasperkins7318
      @thomasperkins7318 2 роки тому +17

      Absolutely!
      Except for cockroaches.😺

    • @hlsylsify
      @hlsylsify 2 роки тому +8

      Tell me about it! Absolutely agree with you.

    • @michelleredmond4450
      @michelleredmond4450 2 роки тому +11

      Everything has a purpose on earth 🌎

    • @VesperAegis
      @VesperAegis 2 роки тому +4

      We could quibble over cancer and brain tumors, I think.

    • @nylirama
      @nylirama 2 роки тому +9

      @@thomasperkins7318 I agree 🙂 There are many insects, parasites and others that only seem to have a negative impact but if we eliminate them completely who knows what kind of imbalance would be created.

  • @philoctetes_wordsworth
    @philoctetes_wordsworth 2 роки тому +132

    Yep. Restoring drained wetlands works. It also filters sewage water to crystal clean. Restoring wetlands is key, and beavers are a part of that.

    • @rich2583
      @rich2583 2 роки тому

      You actually think raw sewage is mixing with this water?

    • @panorama4962
      @panorama4962 Місяць тому

      Probably not most of the time....
      However non-wetland streams tend to be muddy, as they go very fast and erode the river banks.
      And water from wetlands seeps slowly, and has very little sediments, which actually makes it quite clean.

  • @sketchimation_shorts
    @sketchimation_shorts 2 роки тому +116

    Goats, beavers, bees. Everything can help the earth more than humans ever will.

    • @Joelsellers29
      @Joelsellers29 2 роки тому +10

      @@p_aabs we sure don't act like that, look what we've allowed to be done to our home.

    • @carolames7624
      @carolames7624 2 роки тому +1

      Goats, beavers, bees--they are not "things" so they are "everyONE".

    • @nicholaslee4669
      @nicholaslee4669 2 роки тому +5

      @@p_aabs but if we don’t preserve the natural world and admit that nature needs conservation, then we won’t be able to continue our scientific and technological superiority since much of what we have comes from nature in some way, shape, or form.

    • @jjn6914
      @jjn6914 2 роки тому

      @pabswish you're conflating intelligence with "better" or "superior". Obviously, look where all that intelligence got us--it's sent us on an expressway to a certain extinction while taking out all the Earth with us. Also, what's the point of 9 billion people for a small handle of more smart people that create resource-heavy anthropocentric conveniences that make us worse off at the end? 9 billion chances and no one's actually made Earth, not human interests, better.

    • @josephhoward4697
      @josephhoward4697 2 роки тому +1

      @@nicholaslee4669 We need to learn to how balance works. Take some, leave some.

  • @patriciawilson2013
    @patriciawilson2013 2 роки тому +45

    We’ve used and abused them to near extinction. Now our very lives depend upon them. Too bad we couldn’t see what their usefulness was really for. Hope it isn’t too late. Go Beavers!! ❤️👍🏽👌🏽 😍🥰😊

  • @Herbhead369
    @Herbhead369 2 роки тому +87

    It’s funny how people use animals when they need them and dislike them when they don’t

    • @007Julie
      @007Julie 2 роки тому

      Exactly! Humans are horrible, just horrible. We’re the ones who should go extinct not the animals and nature.

    • @lucypearlmorgan3115
      @lucypearlmorgan3115 2 роки тому

      True. Here is another question: What will happened when they continue to breed? Remember history does repeat itself!!

    • @linda6987
      @linda6987 Рік тому

      Not sure who said it “the only use for animals is if they taste good or how they fit. Sad....

    • @panorama4962
      @panorama4962 Місяць тому

      It only affects the surrounding of the rivers.
      Land masses just slightly uphill will remain dry and habitable.

  • @brendatenorio5721
    @brendatenorio5721 2 роки тому +17

    Not only restoring streams, recharging aquifers, filtering water, creating a firewall, providing habitat for other creatures and creating a new more effective flood plan.

  • @suzanne529
    @suzanne529 2 роки тому +114

    Another lesson in "Don't mess with Mother Nature". She knows what she is doing!

    • @miles5600
      @miles5600 2 роки тому +2

      We can help mother nature though

    • @praetorianstride5948
      @praetorianstride5948 2 роки тому

      Many people don’t believe that nature is any more than mass. They are dead wrong.

    • @blkyogi999
      @blkyogi999 2 роки тому +1

      @@miles5600 help yes… control, no

    • @miles5600
      @miles5600 2 роки тому

      @@blkyogi999 agreed

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 2 роки тому +67

    Some times the best way to find solutions is to look to nature.

    • @LouiseGray-sx1dt
      @LouiseGray-sx1dt 6 місяців тому

      Not “sometimes” - Nature ALWAYS know what she’s doing!! Your own body is natural, part of nature. Your body is an animal!

  • @Kim-lc3fv
    @Kim-lc3fv 2 роки тому +27

    I'm so glad beavers are getting Well deserved respect now. 🙂

  • @stevieme8642
    @stevieme8642 2 роки тому +39

    Makes me feel extra good about the beavers that moved into my neighborhood. They're such fascinating critters!

  • @RobertSaxy
    @RobertSaxy 2 роки тому +22

    I remember learning about this about a over a decade ago and can’t believe we haven’t done more to bring them back

  • @qwertylife
    @qwertylife 2 роки тому +19

    Finally, beavers are being appreciated once again!

  • @chadddrott9627
    @chadddrott9627 2 роки тому +62

    I have been teaching wildlife education for 20 years… In that time I have talked about looking more towards wildlife to solve a lot of our planets problems. I mean nature has been relying on the animals to keep everything in balance for millions of years. Glad we are finally turning our blind eye back towards the light.

    • @c87kim
      @c87kim 2 роки тому +1

      Ofc you have. Teachers always think they right

    • @carolames7624
      @carolames7624 2 роки тому +1

      Humanity isn't fit to exist on planet Earth. We are not "stewards of creation." Rather, the other animals are the REAL stewards of creation! Give them, credit! Support animal rights! Go vegan!

    • @linda6987
      @linda6987 Рік тому

      Amen!!!!

  • @shortmeister4321
    @shortmeister4321 2 роки тому +13

    I've always LOVED beavers and how hard they work, and beautiful they are. I'm so glad to see this!🤗💗

  • @SunraeSkatimunggr
    @SunraeSkatimunggr 2 роки тому +58

    There is a farm near Ashland is using the concepts (with multiple ponds and streams) of what beavers do to create and VERY reliable and healthy ecosystem along with marketable produce in an area that is in drought right now.

    • @jashannon
      @jashannon 2 роки тому

      then they should get beavers

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers886 2 роки тому +31

    We ignore nature at our peril.

  • @aaronpaul06
    @aaronpaul06 2 роки тому +9

    I don’t think beavers are the problem in unwanted areas. Humans are on THEIR land.

  • @CAM-fq8lv
    @CAM-fq8lv 2 роки тому +16

    Wonderful creatures who just work and work and work, and we benefit. Magical to come across them in the wild. Their damns are engineering wonders.

  • @Maybe1Someday
    @Maybe1Someday 2 роки тому +7

    I love beavers, more are needed all over. In Las Vegas for example the storm runoff ravines in the desert can have a BDAs (natural dams) built so when it storms over time it can collect water. Over time creating trees and greenery. Then you can release beavers.

  • @katelarouche2835
    @katelarouche2835 2 роки тому +20

    A hundred years after turning them all into hats we're finally willing to let them do the job the Creator made them for.

  • @jamesskelton698
    @jamesskelton698 2 роки тому +5

    These are the kinds of things we need to be doing, instead of trying to find all the the stuff we do to fight about.

  • @Siddhartha040107
    @Siddhartha040107 2 роки тому +18

    Like humans, beavers are a keystone species, animals that can create huge changes in the environment. Great news that humans and beavers are teaming up.

    • @MrMountainchris
      @MrMountainchris 2 роки тому +2

      We are NOT a keystone species! The earth would be much better off without us. We had no business climbing down from the trees in East Africa. That's where the problems started.

    • @Siddhartha040107
      @Siddhartha040107 2 роки тому

      @@MrMountainchris good or bad, we still affected the earth in a huge way. that is a keystone species

  • @dia9491
    @dia9491 2 роки тому +11

    This is fantastic. We need to look at the animals because they know what to do. There is wisdom in instinct. Wonderful story.

  • @Houligans
    @Houligans 2 роки тому +18

    Might need to ban hunting them for awhile. They seem to be hunted quite a bit in our area.

    • @jamessparkman6604
      @jamessparkman6604 2 роки тому +5

      In my educated opinion we never should’ve hunted them in the first place

  • @richmoves
    @richmoves 2 роки тому +19

    Great story! This is another example how all of earth's species are intertwined in terms of dependency and survival. 🌍🧡

  • @gabevilla8578
    @gabevilla8578 2 роки тому +11

    That animation Fairfax made is ammmmmazing! 🥳🥳She needs her own TikTok page filled with these educational animations🎉

  • @missytempleman4793
    @missytempleman4793 2 роки тому +8

    They finely used animals and worked together with them in nature. How human of them. Took long enough.

  • @mimisalvator
    @mimisalvator 2 роки тому +9

    this makes me incredibly happy!

  • @uncledogg5156
    @uncledogg5156 2 роки тому +8

    Thank you for this story.

  • @DebSherr
    @DebSherr 2 роки тому +12

    Leave it to beavers 🦫 and yet mankind gives animals little credit for intelligence but the animals understand ignorance.

  • @robinstevenson6690
    @robinstevenson6690 Рік тому

    Thank you for doing stories like this! Together, we can save our natural wonders.

  • @Brazuir
    @Brazuir 2 роки тому +7

    We need to work WITH Nature, not against it. Nature already has the solutions, we just need to let it take its course.

  • @desmeisme
    @desmeisme 2 роки тому +11

    That’s actually pretty amazing

  • @BanjoBitty
    @BanjoBitty 2 роки тому +6

    "They became a headache to land owners." Ironically the human centric view ends up screwing over everyone, including humans. When we see our true place in the natural world everyone can benefit.

  • @deanvm9158
    @deanvm9158 2 роки тому +2

    A species that we once almost killed to extinction are now doing us a favor... Or let me say, have been doing us a favor, and we just didn't know. I feel sorry for these animals.

  • @paulabears7882
    @paulabears7882 2 роки тому +5

    Finally, humans realize nature does know best.

  • @christinewelford1842
    @christinewelford1842 2 роки тому +14

    We have a pair up by my moms on the river we would get to watch them play and hunt when we would go fishing. They are so cool amd so miss understood animals.

  • @pahunter3
    @pahunter3 2 роки тому +2

    This is another indication that California has needed more dams to retain rain water and snow melt when there are atmospheric rivers bringing heavy rains and snow.

  • @tccragun
    @tccragun 2 роки тому +5

    Some folks have long believed it better to work with Mother Nature than against her. The times they are a changin’

  • @deanvm9158
    @deanvm9158 2 роки тому +2

    Isn't it unfair that, when we thought beavers had no use, we killed them almost to extinction and now that we see how they can be useful to us, all of a sudden we adore them?
    All we humans do is use. We keep using anything that we come across. And when we don't see any use for something anymore, we get rid of it.

  • @adrianhires6500
    @adrianhires6500 2 роки тому +7

    Leave it to beavers 🕶👌

  • @SainteMichele
    @SainteMichele 2 роки тому +6

    leave the beavers alone!!!

  • @Meerkat000
    @Meerkat000 2 роки тому +2

    Loved the stop motion animation!! Just gave me some ideas for my next project !!!

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 2 роки тому +4

    Love the dam builders

  • @Longhairbaee
    @Longhairbaee 2 роки тому +2

    Poor beavers and what they have been through 🥺😢

  • @707Anguiano
    @707Anguiano 2 роки тому +1

    It doesn't matter how many things we throw at drought issues. It starts with educating the public about water use.

  • @danielt.3152
    @danielt.3152 2 роки тому +1

    Beavers can work 24X7 for free and create new habitats, we should be using them even more

  • @haven_lady675
    @haven_lady675 2 роки тому +6

    Beavers are adorable

  • @willyjilly9684
    @willyjilly9684 2 роки тому +10

    If you read this I hope you have a wonderful day today 💙✌

    • @desmeisme
      @desmeisme 2 роки тому +1

      Thank you. You too

  • @FaTCaKeSs1995
    @FaTCaKeSs1995 2 роки тому +2

    Crazy how they build perfect dam

  • @RikodiusRex
    @RikodiusRex 2 роки тому +5

    Handy dandy beavers!

  • @TheHonestPeanut
    @TheHonestPeanut 2 роки тому +1

    You mean to tell me our environment does better when we don't mess with it? The heck you say.

  • @duncanbleak3819
    @duncanbleak3819 2 роки тому +7

    Beavers, more beneficial to the planet than humans!!!
    What a surprise.

  • @Gabianmaster
    @Gabianmaster 2 роки тому

    CBS, Good morning. It's very good that CBS takes on programs that shows us what we're doing to help combat climate change rather than be us to death with climate change is destroying our world. We are humans and we are so smart. We can solve this problem if we can just get the news to support this kind of attitude. Well done

  • @biblebasher9364
    @biblebasher9364 2 роки тому +5

    Maybe loss of ground water isn't about the climate change, it's about us fast-tracking water runoff to the ocean.
    I mean, the climate is changing, along with our understanding as we use our hindsight.

    • @CHMichael
      @CHMichael 2 роки тому +2

      Global warming is a great excuse to not talk about local problems we created. ( not arguing the weather isn't changing)

    • @panorama4962
      @panorama4962 Місяць тому

      It's probably about both, but restoring water resources will surely help.

  • @skycat04
    @skycat04 2 роки тому +1

    The Colorado River's whole region should be populated by them, and then in a few years there would be far more water in it (and in Lake Powell and Lake Mead).

  • @clebert6655
    @clebert6655 2 роки тому +4

    Doing this in Idaho as well.

  • @lurkingarachnid7475
    @lurkingarachnid7475 2 роки тому +4

    Shouldn't have been hunting and killing them for over a century

  • @michaelvillarreal1225
    @michaelvillarreal1225 2 роки тому +2

    When it comes to adaptation and mitigation efforts we should focus on nature-based solutions

  • @matt39581
    @matt39581 2 роки тому +2

    I like that we're starting to do this now, but it sort of gives the same impression as a silicon valley startup breathlessly announcing that they've invented something which just turns out to be a bus again

    • @shellysmith1037
      @shellysmith1037 2 роки тому

      Yes, beavers are cool but it seems funny Trout Unlimited in CA. is removing dams at the same time their DNR are letting beavers build them. IE: dams are good, but not your dams, just our dams

  • @gglen2141
    @gglen2141 2 роки тому +3

    That is really interesting. So many of these discoveries are such "duh" moments.Eco systems that have evolved over millions of years are disrupted over centuries by humans and then 'rediscovered' by humans. Better late than never.

  • @MrMountainchris
    @MrMountainchris 2 роки тому +3

    Once again proving, nature was perfect before we ruined it.

  • @evrenmi
    @evrenmi 2 роки тому

    These little creatures are really chill

  • @elizabethr4107
    @elizabethr4107 2 роки тому +2

    Let's go beavers! #MIT

  • @mikeomolt4485
    @mikeomolt4485 2 роки тому

    Beavers could probably help keeping garden lawns green and frequently watered, . . . . if you don't mind the smell.

  • @davidabbett7011
    @davidabbett7011 2 роки тому +1

    Slowly, ever so slowly, we are waking up to the reality how we belong to a symbiotic “system”.

  • @LIONTAMER3D
    @LIONTAMER3D 2 роки тому +1

    the second-hardest working animal on the planet!

  • @mikejohnson3338
    @mikejohnson3338 2 роки тому +2

    Very confusing title:
    *Scientists use beavers to create drought and fire-resistant landscapes*
    _They use beavers to create drought?!?_

  • @watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870
    @watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870 2 роки тому +1

    Beavers on government payroll? Why not, dogs already are!

  • @borrisdillan9783
    @borrisdillan9783 2 роки тому +2

    THE WORST PEST ON EARTH ARE HUMAN BEINGS!

  • @3in2Art
    @3in2Art 2 роки тому +1

    Fantastic!

  • @ccggenius
    @ccggenius 2 роки тому +1

    So... what do things look like further downstream? It's not like this is creating more water, it's just withholding more upriver.

  • @lucylocket5262
    @lucylocket5262 Рік тому +2

    Beavers were never "pests". Humans didn't have enough knowledge to appreciate what beavers do.

  • @samfilmkid
    @samfilmkid 2 роки тому +2

    I guess beavers are going to become a cottage industry now!

  • @euodiaclitterhouse4726
    @euodiaclitterhouse4726 2 роки тому

    They are so tight knit with their families, I hope they keep them together when movin them...

  • @Brenda-qw7lb
    @Brenda-qw7lb 2 роки тому +2

    Everything is put here for a reason.

  • @ronaldharris6569
    @ronaldharris6569 2 роки тому

    The numbers of beavers that were trapped and skinned will never be known

  • @Punisher6791
    @Punisher6791 2 роки тому

    to quote one of my favorite actors playing one of my favorite character's "uh...Life...uh, finds a way".

  • @michaelbagley9116
    @michaelbagley9116 2 роки тому

    One thing that they are teaching is that if you allow all the water to flow away. You lose the water for your needs. So little things like having a higher border on your lawn and letting the water soak into the local soil and aquifer would make a tremendous difference. Special kind of concrete and asphalt to allow water to flow through.

  • @Mega13green
    @Mega13green 2 роки тому +1

    Shout out to them beavers ! 💯

  • @johnmooney9444
    @johnmooney9444 Рік тому

    A sign of hope.

  • @richtofenillingroth641
    @richtofenillingroth641 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful creatures

  • @cm24624
    @cm24624 2 роки тому +1

    04:45 The most challenging step will be overcoming NIMBY.

    • @A_J502
      @A_J502 2 роки тому

      NIMBY will doom us all.

    • @YakubibnEsau
      @YakubibnEsau 2 роки тому

      What’s NIMBY?

    • @A_J502
      @A_J502 2 роки тому +1

      @@YakubibnEsau
      Not
      In
      My
      Back
      Yard

    • @YakubibnEsau
      @YakubibnEsau 2 роки тому +1

      @@A_J502 thank you!

  • @DByers-ci5kr
    @DByers-ci5kr 2 роки тому +1

    Real Headline: Beavers use scientists to get back to what they do best, dam it!

  • @terryankevmiller470
    @terryankevmiller470 2 роки тому

    Love this story.......everything on this planet is all connected

  • @gihankanishka
    @gihankanishka 2 роки тому +1

    this Native American wisdom

  • @ronnieg6497
    @ronnieg6497 2 роки тому +1

    Every animal has a purpose. This is why people should be punished for animal cruelty.

  • @vango7499
    @vango7499 2 роки тому +3

    Lots of beavers by me in . Georgia

  • @ReviewBoard-uy5nv
    @ReviewBoard-uy5nv 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing

  • @pins44
    @pins44 2 роки тому +1

    I LOVE THIS.

  • @afl3733
    @afl3733 2 роки тому +1

    This is amazing

  • @cynthiarowley719
    @cynthiarowley719 2 роки тому +1

    Great idea. We've made some horrible mistakes.

  • @victorlopez-eq3yl
    @victorlopez-eq3yl 2 роки тому +1

    Perfect

  • @BrighamYen
    @BrighamYen 2 роки тому +1

    I hate when humans talk about other animals with such disdain and arrogance. Beavers are just living their lives building dams, but humans are so selfish.

  • @bs6940
    @bs6940 2 роки тому

    Scientists have actually taught beavers how to do what they have been doing since forever wow

  • @koicaine1230
    @koicaine1230 2 роки тому

    This is awesome!

  • @distainfullcateyes2990
    @distainfullcateyes2990 2 роки тому +1

    So...if humans disappeared tomorrow earth would eventually get back to normal.

    • @A_J502
      @A_J502 2 роки тому

      There is no “normal”.
      The only thing even remotely approaching normal is dynamic instability and rebalance.

  • @dwno5670
    @dwno5670 2 роки тому

    That is so cool Beaver's and real neat how they build there dams😊🌝☺️