Why do beavers build dams?

[admin]

And do the rodents live in these wooden structures?

Why do beavers build dams? : Read more

 

[Heidi Perryman]

And do the rodents live in these wooden structures?

Why do beavers build dams? : Read more

Lodges are where beavers live. Dams are where they "Work"! We need more articles like this setting the record straight.

 

[blueinmo1957]

Just this past October in England and Europe: The Wildlife Trusts and Beaver Trust are celebrating as beavers are now officially recognized as a native species in England and a European protected species.
I love beavers! They return dry land back into wetlands. Beavers are a "keystone" species. Meaning the beaver brings diversity back to a area where he builds his damns. Robert T Paine introduced the idea of keystone species back in 1969.
Legend has it Two fur trappers went to England with The Wild Bill Hickock show and brought back a mating pair of beavers and released them in the American Northwest because all the beavers were gone. Who knows it could be true.

 

[Dmitry]

As for me I love beavers!
But don't you think that their dams evidently slow down the current of the streams and therefore many of those rivers might be transformed into wetlands which is not an excellent habitat let's say for many fish species?