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And beavers don't need no stinking permits to build a dam!

Of that 15 million how many would be in California... any idea?.. I would imagine that the vast majority of that 15 million population would be in Canada.

Yep and if we give them Moringa trees and red willow trees also good too…. Red willow cleans water grows like weeds… and Moringa cleans water and grows like weeds…..

@@bwebster6234why would they just be in Canada?

@@guylewis7418 Because Canada is a massive country with a small population and lots of wilderness and lakes.

@@bwebster6234 sorry 😢 I misunderstood you! Mea culpa! I was thinking before the coming of Europeans. 😳

Bravo! The world needs more people like you!

Agreed 💯%🫡 thank you dear God for Beaver's I would call them ,, holy beavers"😜

Agreed. Animals are a huge part of eco-systems and can't be ignored just for plants. Both enable eachother for the better.

They don't block the flow completely, they slow it down. It helps the water also soak into the ground.

Lol. As a fellow Canadian... good one.

i'm a yooper. i do appreciate the canooks. :) you betcha, eh.

Uh no, you just have a bunch of complete idiots in California.

Sadly yes

And pretending like we thought of it ourselves.

Just as long as we don't bring Wally back as well.

Sometimes beavers need help though, especially where trees have been killed off

They don't necessarily bring more rain, they just allow the rain that does fall to do more. Instead of rushing away at 100mph down stream it meanders and seeps down over months or even years

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They are leaky dams. At first they limit the flow, but than they just stabilize the flow, so when it rains the peak flow will be highly reduced and you'll have much water much longer in the stream

It does stop the flow, it slows it, causes the water to meander and spread both across the land and filter down into the ground. They create ponds of slow-moving water that act as fish hatcheries and provide ecosystems for birds.

Cork trees in Germany? Never seen one, never heard of. Cork [oak] trees were popular mainly in Portugal, oak trees in many countries in Europe, including Spain, France, Germany, basically from Ireland to south-eastern Russia. Despite all warnings such slow growing trees were replaced in southern Europe by fast growing ones, especially eucalyptus trees that catch easily fire and burn extremely well. That is the MAIN reason for the extreme forest fires in Portugal and Spain now (eucalyptus trees on 1.3 million hectares, that is 3.2 million acres). The second problem for forest fires in Portugal and Spain are the abandoned large areas with such trees. Germany and many other countries in Europe are densely populated, relatively humid, with firefighters usually close enough to any forest and so any fire. Mediterranean countries have a different problems: summers are hot and dry, winters relatively cold and humid (rainy, snow at higher altitude) - and close to all forest near coasts were cut already some 2'000 years ago (for building ships). Regarding beavers: Germany (27.5 times smaller than USA) has now some 40'000 beavers, Switzerland (238 times smaller than USA) estimate 5'000 beavers after reintroduction some 50 years ago - that for both countries is compared to surface 10 times less beavers than in USA where the beavers were never extinct.

This where laws need to change in junction with insurance policies. If you have a source or body of water on your property that could help with saving your structures and you choose to not let it be or to actively drain it then your insurance provider should be able to raise your premium ten fold.

@haroldchase4120 So true. But that doesn’t feed corporate wallets and religious myths about having “dominion” over the planet. One of the signs of a collapsing society is its refusal to learn lessons from cultures it considers inferior.

She’s your mom

Tipping point absolutely does have a scientific definition. It's really commonly used in chemistry and chemical engineering as well as structural engineering. Tipping point refers to the point at which a process becomes self reinforcing. I.e. you have to work to push over a chair only until it reaches its tipping point

lol they dont know what to do with bryne and it kills the local aquatics near desal plants

I used to be for those desal plants but not any more, after having learned a lot more about the costs vs. the benefits. Until they can improve that process we should move on to more creative ideas.

When the first drought came I don't know on the 40s or whenever it was they should have got right on it and had desalination plants Belton California look at that ocean there's all that water there to be used if they only would have built desalination plants kind of late now but they could still do it

Desalination plants are outrageously expensive, consume vast amounts of electricity, and require the release of millions of gallons of brine into the ocean nearby, killing most aquatic life in the area. They aren't a solution, unless you want to spend a dollar a gallon for water and turn off your air conditioner and heat in order to power them. Work is being done on more-sophisticated desalination technologies, but they're all a long way from commercialization. It would be wiser to focus on lower-tech, lower-cost solutions such as recharging groundwater. Beavers can help with that, along with projects like the one Orange County conducted in the Santa Ana river to retain more groundwater, where they drove enormous metal cylinders into the riverbed to retain millions of gallons of annual storm runoff, impounding it and forcing it to gradually recharge their groundwater.

@@sunspot42 Thanks for explaining this so clearly. I would give 10 thumbs up if I could. All we can do is keep trying to educate people. 🙏 Oh, well, that and generously donate to restoration initiatives with our time and money. ;)