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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Yosemite National Park, California
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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Baddest of the badlands
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National Bird Day
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It s time for spring
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Village of Oia in Santorini, Greece
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National Napping Day
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Sibiu Christmas market, Romania
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We did not invent this, honest
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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Happy Lunar New Year!
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International Cheetah Day
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International Day of Mangrove Conservation
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Preveli Gorge
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Badlands National Park in South Dakota
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Walking among the giants
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The city of Osaka at night, Japan
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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Rainbow Mountain
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Birch trees, Drammen, Norway
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Winter Olympics in Beijing
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Star Wars Day
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Engineering an artificial harbor in Normandy
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Space-age style by the sea
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Across the great plains of Africa
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Veterans Day
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Great hornbill, Thailand
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Dog days of summer
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Let’s go mothing
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