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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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Sand dunes in the Sahara, Algeria
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Santo Antão Island in the Republic of Cabo Verde
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Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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’Chess on ice’
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Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, California
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Ides of March
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Marshland, Gloucester, MA
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Tulips at Emirgan Park in Istanbul, Türkiye
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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil
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A unique elephant encounter in Nantes
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World Architecture Day
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Horse Head Rock, New South Wales, Australia
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Alstrom Point, Lake Powell, Utah
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Everyone s watching the Perseids
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The largest living organism on Earth
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Cloudy with a chance of enlightenment
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Happy World Laughter Day
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National Park Week: Yosemite National Park, California
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Mountains fit for a queen
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A cliff-hanging complex of temples
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Martimoaapa Mire Reserve, Finland
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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