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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Celebrating the International Day of Forests
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Till the cows come home
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Haghartsin Monastery, Armenia
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Paper lanterns on the longest night
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Happy 800th, Salisbury Cathedral
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Black History Month
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Spring equinox
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Take this for a spin...
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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Happy World Meteorological Day
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
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Preveli Gorge
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Kochelsee in Bavaria
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Headed to the High Country
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Taking the scenic route to Sturgis
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Is this Minecraft headquarters?
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Beech trees and wild anemones, Jutland, Denmark
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International Beaver Day
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State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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The Christmas Bird Count begins
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Field of Light at Sensorio by Bruce Munro
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A lunar lantern celebration
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Castle Square, Old Town, Warsaw, Poland
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Northern hawk-owl
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Surf s up—Down Under
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High seas commerce
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Wildcat in a winter wonderland