For International Beaver Day, we take a peek at one of nature"s most prolific engineers, the beaver. This sleek swimmer is at Schwabacher’s Landing, a boat landing along the east shore of the Snake River in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Beavers build dams to help keep their lodges and litters safe, but the positive impacts ripple through the environment: restoring wetlands, combating climate change, and removing fertilizer runoff. If we protect their habitat, beavers will pay it forward by creating the wetlands so many threatened or endangered species rely on.
Busy building wetlands
Today in History
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Siblings Day
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Cheers! It’s National Wine Day
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Celtic Colours International Festival, Canada
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Harvest time in the Palouse
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Frog Month
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European beech forest, Belgium
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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Paris is photo-ready this week
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I see one!
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The Guggenheim turns 60
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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Saksun, Faroe Islands, Denmark
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Light show in the forest
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Ode to the sun
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Till the cows come home
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In orbit for Yuri s Night
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Alaska Day
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North Sea at sunset, Norddorf, Germany
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Iguazu Falls at the border of Argentina and Brazil
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Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary
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Take a hike near Lovers Lane
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A grotesque scene
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National Park Week continues
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J.R.R. Tolkien Day
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Tintern Abbey, Wales
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Wildlife crossing, Wierden, Netherlands
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Independence Day of the Argentine Republic
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A bridge comes full circle
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It s World Poetry Day
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Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia