“Beavers always know best,” Jaroslav Obermajer, head of the Central Bohemian office of the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency, told Radio Prague International, which first reported the story.
Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents that use rocks, mud, and wood to dam up streams. This creates wetlands known as “beaver ponds,” which the animals use as sources of food, as well as protection from predators.
(Beavers were once literally parachuted into the Idaho wilderness.)
But these structures also create habitat for scores of other species, such as aquatic insects, fish, and amphibians as well as larger creatures like herons, whooping cranes, moose, and bison. Beaver dams can also serve as natural firebreaks, carbon sinks, and they provide flooding control.
Gerhard Schwab, beaver manager for the southern part of Bavaria for the Federal Nature Conservation Association, says he’s not surprised to hear that the beavers did a good job. However, he’s skeptical of some reports that they did so “overnight.”
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