![]() ![]() “The Beaver Believers are people like me who have come to recognize that this is an incredibly important animal that we should cooperate with in landscape restoration.” ![]() “The Beaver Believers are a tribe of scientists, land managers, farmers and ranchers - really anyone - who believes that restoring these incredible little ecosystem engineers can help us deal with all kinds of environmental problems,” Goldfarb says. ![]() So, what does it mean to be a “Beaver Believer?” In his 2018 book, " Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter," author Ben Goldfarb examines the history, ecology and physiology of beavers - and describes why some landowners are welcoming beavers to help store water and revitalize streams in the increasingly arid American West. ![]() But a growing cohort of self-styled “Beaver Believers” is celebrating the dam-building creatures as a keystone species on which entire freshwater ecosystems depend. Beavers, the largest rodents in North America, are sometimes seen as pests. ![]()
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