@Loukas there is a good read called #beaverland which makes the same case to allow #beavers to regenerate dried out and destroyed ecosystems. The only thing stopping the unleashing of this natural force is the ecological industry who would lose if that were to happen. Kind of like the police and fire departments.

And 3 e-books for #beaverland
Cool!

#Beavers

Beaverland is the NYPL Book of the Day. (H/T spouse). I would not have known as I don't go on twitter.
"In 'Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America' by @theleilaphilip
, Philip follows fur trappers, traders, auctioneers, wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, and engineers."
https://twitter.com/nypl/status/1631987890136793090

#Beavers #BeaverLand #NYPL

@Mikal

@rachelschicksiegel
I'm currently reading #BeaverLand by Leila Philip
https://www.leilaphilip.com/beaverland-1

#beaver

I’m reading #beaverland by @leilaphilip and am falling in love with the rodents. Leila is brutally concise with the facts and beautifully prosaic with stories and their behavior. I’m on page 22 and already in the water with them. So far and in one sentence: The book is dam good.

@LGsMom #Beavers don't live in their dams. They live in lodges. I read once that beavers can let out enough water through their dams though to create a nice air space under the ice in winter. Their lodges must be porous enough to allow for air flow. The best books about beavers are #Eager by Ben Goldfarb, the new book #Beaverland by Leila Phillip, and books written by Frances Backhouse. Also I am very fond of the book Paddy by R.D. Lawrence.

Seriously, though, don’t try this at home.

Leila Phillip writes about Dorothy Richards and her #beaver sanctuary in #Beaverland.

In #Beaverland, Scott McGill says, "What we actually found...is that the #beaver pond created cold-water refugia in the center. If I am a #trout maybe I don't like the beaver canals and shallow areas in July and August, but in spring and fall the food availability is of a different magnitude here than in a single-channel stream. And in a beaver pond you can go deep and not get eaten by a blue heron."

#beavers #habitat #biodiversity

Actually, Leila Phillip talks about the impact of #beavers on #trout in #Beaverland:

"One of the myths about beavers is that they negatively impact trout. Trout #fishing is big business, with historically strong support, and the removal of #beaver dams and the trapping of beavers to protect trout #streams has been standard policy for most #wildlife departments ever since beavers returned in the early twentieth century."

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@Iragersh Beavers can chew through plastic. Cages need to be wire mesh (not chicken wire), staked into the ground so the #beavers don’t just lift them up, and four feet high or higher (depending on snowfall).
This website has good information:
https://www.beaversww.org/trees-plantings/

The owners of Beavers:Wetlands & Wildlife, Owen and Sharon Brown, are in the book #Beaverland by Leila Phillip. And Sharon Brown is on the advisory board of my nonprofit!

So the #Chesapeake Bay is such an interesting example of a #watershed in need of help. The pollution is so bad there that the EPA has it under a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL: https://www.epa.gov/chesapeake-bay-tmdl

From #Beaverland: "the Chesapeake is the largest watershed on the Atlantic seaboard, intersected by over a hundred #rivers and thousands of #creeks. And every drop of #rain that falls in the watershed...finds its way into the Chesapeake Bay.

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THREAD: More thoughts about Leila Phillip's book #Beaverland. I made it to chapter 13, where Phillip meets up with Scott McGill at Long Green Creek within the #Chesapeake Bay #watershed. McGill owns an #environmental restoration company called Ecotone.

He is one of the founders and sponsors of #BeaverCON and I attended many a zoom with him while serving on the planning committee for the 2022 conference.

#beavers #beaverrestoration #ecosystems

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@Run_w_clouds The books are so different! Let me know what you think of #Beaverland!

Phillip continues: “And it was well understood that the #beaver were critical to preserving #water resources that the bison needed because the bison relied on grass, and the people relied on the #bison. So there's this very sophisticated #environmental awareness that in many ways we're catching up to.”
#Beaverland #nativeamericans
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2023-01-14/beaverland-author-deep-dives-into-how-beavers-shaped-america

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One of the things I really enjoyed about #Beaverland by Leila Phillip is that she examines how #Indigenous people viewed #beavers prior to European settlement.

In this interview, Phillip details her findings: PHILIP: Yeah. It's interesting because in woodland cultures, the beaver's depicted as rather mischievous because there were a lot of beavers. But in the Black Teeth nation, you know, there were prohibitions against harming beavers because it's an arid environment.”

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And I started to think about what would happen to my #beavers, who we had named Cocoa and Brownie, and to their kits.

And I realized that I had to change the laws and policies of the entire state of #Illinois to keep my beavers safe. Which is a perfectly rational conclusion to reach, right?

So I formed a nonprofit, the Illinois Beaver Alliance. I found a fiscal sponsor. I reached out to several "famous" beaver believers, who are in Eager and Leila Phillip's book #Beaverland.

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Transcript of an interview with Leila Phillip, author of #beaverland.

https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/pawcast-leila-philip-86-how-beavers-shaped-america

“And it wasn’t just that #beaver revved up the engines of capitalism here, and started our first economies. When I really started to study beavers, I began to see how they literally, literally shaped our continent, the land, our #watersheds, and our geology were influenced by #beavers over millennia.”

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"When we imagine #streams in North America, chances are we envision water rippling over stones as it follows a groove. But as I had learned...that is a stream without beavers. Seen from above, a #riverine system with a healthy population of #beaver resembles a great spiderweb."--Leila Phillip, #Beaverland

#ecosystemamnesia #ecosystems #beavers #beaverrestoration

"That swamp by the side of the road was no longer just a messy patch of #water. Now I saw a #beaver pond, rich with #biodiversity, a #wetland, connected to the larger #river system working like a vast kidney to cleanse the water; what remained, or was in the process of becoming once again, a glimmer of Beaverland."--Leila Phillip, #Beaverland

#biodiversity #beavers #ecosystems

"Beavers did not conduct fabulous migrations from the depths of the Sargasso Sea like Atlantic eels, or fly hundreds of miles on wings as delicate as paper like monarch butterflies, but their journeys were no less remarkable... #Beavers were changing how I saw everything."--Leila Phillip, #Beaverland

#beavers #biodiversity #habitat

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