Topic: Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the State

[Pandora]

... The idea is that beavers are nature’s hydrologists, engineering the way that water travels through the landscape:

... “Beavers aren’t actually creating more water, but they are altering how it flows, which creates benefits through the ecosystem,” says Michael Pollock, an ecosystems analyst and beaver specialist at the National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Science Center.

Rivers and streams that have been diverted by humans are designed to remove water quickly from the watershed, destroying local habitats for animals and making it more difficult for an ecosystem to recover from drought. Beavers build infrastructure which help to slow the flow of water, letting it recharge local aquifers, and preventing erosion which helps keep plants alive.

Not everyone is a fan of the Bring Back the Beaver campaign. Ecologists can’t agree where beavers originally lived, for one, so they aren’t sure where they should be reintroduced. And they don’t want to end up with an invasive species, which is what happened in South America. But some scientists aren’t waiting around for a consensus. The Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program is taking matters into its own hands, hiring humans to build their own beaver-like structures to mimic the rodents’ beneficial environmental impact. You can join a Facebook campaign for the plan here. It sounds like a dam good idea.

OF COURSE, the beasts do 'water diversion' better. Two legs bad, four legs good. 

The entire world has gone bat-sh*t fckg insane.

[AlanS]

That's not exactly the wet beaver I was looking for when I clicked this thread.

[Libertas]

Beaver specialists, yeah, right.

 

These Gaia worshippers don't know jack!

More critters being pumped not for the critters benefit but for the rent-seeking trash that pretend to not be about controlling two-legged critters.

[Glock32]

It's also the static view of the Left.  It's funny how they're always touting words like "progress" and "change" but they believe in an ultimately static view of the world.  Can't introduce automation because people are paid to do that work, we need to subsidize this obsolete industry, etc, etc.  And the worst example of this is their assumption that the economy is a pie of fixed size that never grows.

So it's the same with this stuff.  Surely there are many species of plants and animals that have benefit from the way human engineering altered the flow of water.  Just tell them bringing back the beavers would endanger some species of snail that currently thrives in manmade reservoirs.

[Libertas]

Progs endanger humanity, period.  It is they who must be engineered into obsolescence if the species is to survive.  That would be collectively good for all intelligent life forms.

Let them digest that!