Beavers could be Colorado's secret weapon to cleaning rivers and abandoned mines
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Could the American beaver-"nature's engineers"-be Colorado's secret weapon to cleaning up waterways and abandoned mines?
Rory Cowie thinks so. Cowie has been a hydrologist for more than 15 years. He explained that Beavers are known to be keystone species, meaning they are critical to their ecosystem and the other species within it. In the case of the beaver, their engineering skills build vital water areas.
“They attract and increase the biodiversity of wildlife coming into those areas, which is really important to the overall ecosystem health,” Cowie elaborated.
The animals also improve water quality. When water sits in beaver-built ponds, it soaks into the ground and the porous earth acts as a filter before the water re-enters the water system down river.
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Yes, humans messed it up, now beavers gotta fix it. One more example of how we should have respected Mother Nature.
Humans haven’t stopped yet; still messing up more and more.
Beavers are critical to improving watersheds. For decades we have been all about facilitating water racing to the ocean. Insane.
Beavers key stone species ,create new habitats forv wildlife .prevent flooding ,in droughts keeps tables high .Filter water etc.
Uh your completely wrong but hey atleast you tried
@@psyklown5198 why is she wrong?
i like beavers
beavers are amazing little engineers !!!
Finally some action in the San Juan watersheds!
Beavers need to be reintroduced into all of their previous range because they are a part of the natural environment. Man must learn to live in harmony with a natural world because in the end we benefit just as much as the wildlife.
Unfortunately, when you go from 1 million animals to 100K, there aren't enough to cover the same range.
@@cloudswinger2000 hopefully given a protected status will help them to reproduce rapidly.
Building codes can shift to keep structures well back from waterways and wetlands, or go on stilts if needed, as in some countries.
Need to get rid of all the toxic chemicals first! And NOT by dumping them into the Colorado River like the EPA did in 2015. Beavers can be poisoned just like the rest of us.
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I love how private, for profit, companies can walk in, extract the wealth, and leave the debris for taxpayers to clean up. It's a lousy economic model.
What if the private companies that came in already paid the taxes but the qovt squandered the future cleanup money?
They didn't pay it. So your question is pointless.
@@probert2436 they paid standard corporate taxes on income and employees: did they pay extra into a fund set aside to make the site safe after completion of operations because of the _known health effects of mine pollution?_
and you think these "non profits" are any better
@SWolf do I think that actively repairing vs actively destroying is better? Yes. Yes, I do. If someone does not, they need to really work on that.
What's crazy is how old mines can change underground water flow with such things as springs popping up on the other side of a mountain. He certainly has a point about unexpected eruption on mine water and because such things are difficult to predict when and where where you think of it beavers would be vitality important when it comes to stopping or slowing that which can't be anticipated and prevented by humans.
Very nicely done. Agreed. 🦫
Great video thank you!
A natural settling pond.
Beautiful view
Release the beavers!
Prevent any new construction along waterways and watersheds, set them back so the beavers have their territory increase and can help rebalance the water cycle.
We need more Beavers. Save our Beavers.
I love this! But won't it harm the beavers?
Great news
Best of all, beavers can reduce the velocity of water allowing silt to settle out and encouraging water to infiltrate the aquifers without needing govt permits or getting arrested for catching the king's water, since Colorado doesn't even allow you to use rain barrels on your roof gutters.
Rain barrels don’t help fill the aquifer, but slowing the water does, and one can do that in small ways, with very low contour stone and dirt and plant berms or whatever they are called. Knee high would be ideal, many of them that just slow the water so it has time to sink into the ground.
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DUH
"Silvertin"?????
Silverton, named for its now empty silver mines.
Add common muskrat for one, two, watershed advocates in sync, posting stink about drying up anyways.
Once again,women save the day....ohhh those beavers lol
So do 1 mine per year pumping it out into mobile water treatment and purification units (you can borrow these from the army) then transfer the treated water to a water treatment facility for further processing. Then use whatever method will work best to keep the mine from poisoning the environment and seal it. There is more than enough money in Colorado's state budget to do this and keep the EPA (aka the Environmental Poisoning Agency) as far away from it as possible.
1 mine per year? Did you miss the bit where there are 10,000s of mines?
Yup. I missed that part. Time to do as many as possible per year.
yup yup √√√
"PRIOR TO EUROPEAN ARRIVAL"... How true those words ring for the whole world. When did "Europeans" decide they knew enough to lord it over the natural world, worldwide?
natives made dozens of species of megafauna go extinct as well
@@kumatmebro315 Correct! had s l a v ...es and made war created empires etc etc.
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Mines need to be blown up to fill with dirt.Not water.Even if it means caving in surrounding area!!!!
If you live in a fairy tale they can.
Did you see the video? There are quite a few arguments that beavers can actually help!
Yet you probably read the Bible
Very shaky logic to connect mine cleaning with beavers :(
Not at all, though I bet YOU'VE not read any of the data.
The guy looks like Karl Pilkington.