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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‘Ciao’ from Varenna
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Common blue butterfly
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Celebrating the International Day of Forests
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Glendurgan Garden hedge maze is 186 years old
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A dreamy start to the Year of the Pig
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La Rocque Harbour, Island of Jersey
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An oceanic valentine
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Fresh water on the Silk Road
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The Roaches ridge in the Peak District, England
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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi rainforest in New Zealand
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Embracing the cold
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Ancient art in the Amazon
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Saint Andrews Day
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West Cornwall Covered Bridge, Connecticut
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Glacier cave in Iceland
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Mod gear
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Canada Day
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Rice fields at Sapa, Lào Cai, Vietnam
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Who doesn’t love a ‘Puppy’?
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International Sloth Day
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Bidding summer adieu
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Celebrating Bike to Work Week, May 14-18
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Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Armbrug bridge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A goldie gala
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World Elephant Day
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Paradise Cave, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam
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On the lookout for Sheep-Cote Clod
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