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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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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