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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Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
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An opulent backdrop for a historic event
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Oh, the places you’ll go
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Life in the slow lane
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In honor of those we ve lost
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Sailing on thick ice
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The Roaches ridge in the Peak District, England
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International Zebra Day
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
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The roots of invention
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The view will stop you in your tracks
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Bright and colorful peacock feathers
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Frozen fun in the Canadian cold
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A. M. Foster Bridge in Cabot, Vermont
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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch on the institution s 175th anniversary
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World Dolphin Day
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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What s better than a smile?
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An unlikely friendship in the wild
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Happy birthday, Capitol Reef National Park
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World Poetry Day
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A peek behind the royal curtain
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All hail the king of shrubs
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Celebrating National Dentist Day
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Welcome to the pack
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1, 1, 2, 3: It s Fibonacci Day!
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Freeze frame
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World Space Week
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South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida