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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Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act anniversary
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Black History Month
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Celebrate Mandela Day
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Beware the Ides of March
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Happy Lunar New Year!
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National Park Service Founders Day
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A state-of-the-art lookout on the Rock of Gibraltar
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Cranborne Chase, England
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Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
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Thorrablot: The Icelandic midwinter festival
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An opulent backdrop for a historic event
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Winter in the Wild West
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Happy Boxing Day!
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Badlands National Parks 45th anniversary
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Dusky eagle-owls, Pakistan
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Fallen but not forgotten
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Maybe we should be looking up
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In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
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World Art Day
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Southern lights for Antarctica Day
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A crush in Lavaux
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A polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
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It’s Weihnachtsmarkt time!
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Lunar eclipse
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World Theatre Day
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Blue walls of Chefchaouen, Morocco
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It’s Canada’s national day
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Fannette Island, Lake Tahoe
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Wicker fields in Cañamares, Spain
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Christmas market, St. Stephens Basilica, Budapest, Hungary
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