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Having a proactive statewide management plan, advocates said, can help educate the public about the importance of sustaining beaver populations, outline goals for their recovery, and help foster coexistence with communities.

New research shows that 鈥渂eaver-modified riverscapes鈥� are very resilient to the effects of large wildfires. After burns, the refuge they provide to flora and fauna can also aid in post-fire recovery. That鈥檚 why the researchers involved argue that beavers 鈥渃an be part of a comprehensive fire-mitigation strategy.鈥�

Pitkin County is hoping to make beavers a top priority, funding measures that may eventually restore North America鈥檚 largest rodent to areas it once lived in the Roaring Fork watershed.

The Water Hub, an organization centered on water justice, led a briefing with a team of panelists to share local solutions as the Colorado River faces historic drought.

Beavers create messy wetlands as safe places to live, and a new paper explains how their engineering is also a powerful tool in fending off the harms of climate change. Their dams, channels and ponds have positive side effects that reduce the damage caused by flood, drought and wildfire.

It's no secret that water is a problem in the West. Historically, the humble beaver helped maintain wetlands and ponds across the arid landscape but...