Tag: watersheds

Since recolonizing Minnesota about 70 years ago, beavers have provided a wealth of ecosystem services that continue to this day. Researchers say the information they’ve uncovered can help managers who...

During the early 20th century, many state agencies translocated America beavers to restore them in areas where they had been locally extirpated during the European fur trade. Through translocation and...

The Chesapeake Bay is now home to around 10,000 mating pairs of ospreys despite constant levels of some chemical pollutants in the water. “The osprey population in the Chesapeake is...

Beavers may be providing watersheds a service by removing some of the agricultural nitrogen runoff in northeast rivers. “There’s a huge concern about the amount of nutrients of our lands...