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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study from the University of Alberta, published in a recent issue of Mammalian Biology, reveals that busy beavers help Canada geese get an earlier start when the birds fly home and begin nesting in the spring. The researchers found that in ponds in Alberta where beavers were active, an earlier thaw of winter snowpack resulted, giving Canada geese a better chance at reproductive success. This study is the first to link early...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online According to a study by the University of Southampton, reintroduced European beavers could have an encouraging impact on wild salmon populations in Scotland. Due to their dam building activities and potential to block migratory life phases, representatives from recreational fisheries north and south of the border are concerned that beavers can harm economically important fish stocks. However, results of a study conducted by...

A Canadian environment official said Wednesday that a beaver dam helped to contain an oil spill near the native village of Little Buffalo in Canada's Alberta province, according to a report by the AFP news agency. Alberta Environment said that oil started leaking April 29 from a pipeline belonging to Plains Midstream Canada in northern Alberta about 4.3 miles away from the village. The oil spilled about 28,000 barrels of oil in all. Officials said the oil almost sullied a river but was...

A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam, located in a remote area of northern Alberta, which can be seen from space.Researcher Jean Thie said he used satellite imagery and Google Earth software to find the dam, which is about 2,800 feet long on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park. The average beaver dam in Canada is about 32 to 328 feet long, and it is rare to even see one as big as about 1,640 feet. The dam, which was first discovered in October 2007,...

Massachusetts Highway Department officials said a pair of tenacious beavers used mud to clog a plastic pipe inserted into their dam to drain a flooded road. The department said workers initially used backhoes to breach the dam in wetlands next to Den Rock Park in Lawrence, but the animals quickly rebuilt the barrier and flooding resumed on Route 114, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday. The officials then inserted the plastic pipe into the dam to allow the water to flow away from the road, but...

By Lisa P. White, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Jul. 31--MARTINEZ -- Brentwood has the CornFest, and Gilroy is famous for its annual celebration of the stinking rose. Now, Martinez has the Beaver Festival. The folks at Worth A Dam, the local nonprofit dedicated to keeping the critters in Alhambra Creek, are putting on the event in conjunction with the Willows Theatre production of "Sacajawea." The free festival is 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Alhambra Avenue...

By Tom Grace, The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. Jul. 22--A beaver dam on a stream that feeds Otsego Lake is slated to be replaced this summer before it breaks again. Situated on a small brook on the lake's western shore, the dam has burst several times over the years, according to Matt Albright, assistant to the director of SUCO's Biological Field Station on the lake. "Every year or so, it washes out, and then a lot of what's behind it washes into the lake," he said. The periodic break...

They may be considered pests, but beaver can help mitigate the effects of drought, and because of that, their removal from wetlands to accommodate industrial, urban and agricultural demands should be avoided, according to a new University of Alberta study."Removal of beaver should be considered an environmental disturbance on par with in-filling, peat mining and industrial water extraction," said researcher Glynnis Hood, lead author on the study and an assistant professor of Environmental...

Willow trees, riparian willow warblers and beaver dams once were bountiful in an area near the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada. But once wolves left this area, elk grew more plentiful, browsing heavily on young willows. Today, there is little trace of beavers, and sparrows have replaced the warblers in what is now a grassland meadow. These profound changes were driven by the absence of the wolf, a top predator. That's the compelling finding of the paper, "Human Activity mediates a Trophic...