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
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Edinburgh festivals
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Bobbio, Italy
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A unique perspective from Italy’s ‘golden sands’
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Marine Day in Japan
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Spring comes to the Palouse
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International Surfing Day
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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In honor of those we ve lost
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Leap day
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Glacial spires in the fog
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Wat Sri Sawai in Sukhothai Historical Park, Thailand
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A ‘city’ within Valencia
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A little bit of Wonderland in New York City
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Cheetah mother and cub
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Mountains fit for a queen
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Bearded reedlings in Flevoland
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At the shore of an inland sea
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Alpine marmots at Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria
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Travel Sunday: Flamenco in Granada, Andalusia, Spain
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Jupiter and the Galilean moons
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A ‘circus of chaos’ for Stravinsky
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Atolls in the Maldives
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The Guggenheim turns 60
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Northern hawk-owl
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turns 103
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It s a ruff life
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Menton, France
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Pollinator Week