Here is how beavers are helping in California's firefight | To The Point
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2022
- California's drought is a multi-billion dollar issue that we've dumped a lot of resources into, but climate scientists are finding that working with what nature provides could be more effective than our synthetic solutions.
They say sometimes, you just gotta leave it to the beavers.
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Beavers are awesome! They are one of Mother Nature's coolest mammals!
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And beavers don't need no stinking permits to build a dam!
When Europeans came to North America, there were 400 million beavers. The land and ecosystems evolved alongside them . Now, after decades of conservation, there are 15 million. Still far to few, but those little engineers are trying their hardest to repair the damage humans have done to the land. They don't ask for much, a few willow or cottonwood trees and the freedom to improve their environment. If we work with them and accommodate their needs, they will work 24/7 to save us from ourselves.
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. 😳
I wish I could personally thank everyone involved in bringing beavers back to the creeks and streams where they belong. They are to me sacred, special creatures that bring life wherever they go. The tribes have always understood that.
Bravo! The world needs more people like you!
Agreed 💯%🫡 thank you dear God for Beaver's I would call them
,, holy beavers"😜
So basically we are rediscovering what the Natives have known all along.
Uh no, you just have a bunch of complete idiots in California.
Sadly yes
And pretending like we thought of it ourselves.
We sure know how to screw up the land by destroying these helpful animals
If you consider that the US used to have between 100 and 400 MILLION beavers, you can see why it has such problems with drought and changes in weather patterns.
Agreed. Animals are a huge part of eco-systems and can't be ignored just for plants. Both enable eachother for the better.
This could be why your northern neighbor has this critter as our national mascot. . . 🤔😏🇨🇦
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.
The world would save itself if humanity would just act humane and quit being so destructive
Makes sense. Hopefully this concept spreads and takes off.
Wise climate heroes. . Great reporting. Thank you..
Bravo! The world needs more people like you! The best of luck to you and your friends!
Thank you. Bringing back Beavers, Wolves & other creatures that enhance natural water & keep hooves angulates in reasonable numbers can only be a big plus for us.
As someone from California, to Solve Wildfires and Drought Fish and Wildlife services should not be allowed to k!ll off animals in order to open the area to real estate developement. It directly increases the threat of wildfires & it's severity. Those "homes" take up at least an acre of land, they are built on mountainsides that are already prone to wildfire. These "homes" are owned by corporations & are fliming locations for t.v, movie, photoshoot.
Great reporting. Thank you.
“Sometimes you just have to leave it to beavers”
*Everyone in the newsroom high fives
Just as long as we don't bring Wally back as well.
O so when you leave them alone and let them do what’s been natural to them for thousands of years it helps the environment… 🤯
We need some in Eagle Lake California!!!!
I’d love to see more about these beavers and how they are helping.
Protect nature’s engineers
Super cool. Beavers are so awesome.
Looking for this incredible creatures for some time (unfortunately only in net) I'have been in kind of obsession with them.
Conclusion: give them as many land nad creeks as possible, final result can be only GOOD for beavers and for us as well.
I got a better idea,
Give the braves the right away.
No hunting, no removal.
Stand out of the beaver's way.
🤔
Sometimes beavers need help though, especially where trees have been killed off
We need more Beavers. Save our Beavers.
Truth. Instead of relocating them I would focus on mitigation so we can let them populate everywhere possible.
beavers life matter
It's about time somebody in California had something with a good idea
Should also use prescribed burns because the entire south west is a fire dependent area
Beavers: natures's cybernetic engineers
If they were as big as us, they'd be able to implement their wildlife engineering skills on a larger scale and even teach human engineers their effective and efficient ways of restoring the land that was lost to human activity and greed.
Who knew that beavers could bring enough rain to end the drought. Amazing 😊
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
I Love Beavers. ❤
Hopefully the beavers can be protected from the people in our society who are ignorant to the facts of how important their existence is to everyone on this continent. 🙏
Send this information to the individuals on the supreme court that descended protection for wetands... no wetlands=no beavers....thank you
Wise climate heroes. 🎉🎉🎉❤
Beavers are the key to life
One question. Will the beavers be getting similar salary package and benefits as the full time firefighters for this job?
I love ❤️ Beavers 🦫 ♥️
🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫
Yep … we need buccees 😂😂😂
Great
Who would have thunk it?
They're my favorite animal!
Leave It To Beaver(s) 🦫
I love beavers!
Castoris canadiensys … Canadian beavers!
So are they making Dams and blocking water flow? that was my first thought..
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.
Controlled burns, too.
Read 'Three Against the Wilderness' by Eric Collier to see the effect of beavers on wild fires.
(when every living cell holds an ocean within water wants to flow slow )
We really need to let as much of the valley flood like it use to..then this would stop.
The problem that I found is that there is one critter that does the opposite which is a nutria. Unfortunately they have spread out that way to California
and other states be safe out there Y’all.
I cannot say one bad thing about beavers. I can say a lot of bad things about the hunters who massacred them for their fur.
People in Germany and other highly populated areas in Europe have been managing their undergrowth and their forest for decades successfully. They do have forest fires but they are very rare one way to stop them is tube periodically plant cork trees
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.
I agree with the concept, you have shown the proof, and we should implement more of nature's engineers, beavers 🦫 . So leave it too beavers, wasn't such a bad idea after all. Blessed are amen.
All this was avaliable 20y ago.
Perma scape.
What is awesome is how our creator has made our planet and animals for a purpose nothing is by chance! Its we humans when we intervene with perfection we make a mess of things!
Just glue sand to trees you don't want them to cut down idk why ppl still act like this is an issue, like sure if you paint every tree with sand they will ignore it but that's just on you lol
The Engineer
Beavers can be vere helpfull allies! 👍
Leave it to Beavers...
These guys really cut themselves into big money for this "free" solution
Just let them do what they need to do!
😉👍
Nature or Mother Nature does not have a will. It is not a being. Beavers are God given.
There is a reason why it's important to spell things how they are, otherwise, you'll be under the spell of lies.
So many private land ownership in sensitive areas and no laws to stop killing them on private lands, mostly ag lands.
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.
Nature with ‘a little ‘ help from us can resolve most things but there is ‘no profit’ in cheap and simple solutions ……. Permaculture has all the answers……
Beavers should be paid a decent wage for a full day's work eating roots and felling trees.
The beavers should be under legal protection instead of considering them a nuisance.
Human should learn from nature ❤
Beavers 1 Sacramento 0
How many times must us native Americans tell you guys let nature do what it does
@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.
Try to explaining this a while back.
Mini water turbines to generate power for the area.
Build a turbine let the beavers build it down everybody wins.
ok .. and what if beavers arte outnumbered ? Where are the predators ?
Problem is humans act like beavers for profit.
And then there are hunters killing this beautiful creatures daily with the most horrible traps
Of course, it doesn't help when 10 thousand people from LA and San Francisco decide to buy a nice piece of land out in the country or mountains and build a nice, big house. Sort of defeats the process?
Maybe it would be better if we learned to leave the wild places alone and maybe just once in a short while, go out in very small groups with trained people who understand biological processes and hydrology, who can guide us to understand the elegant and simplistic value of these aquatic zones.
Nature knows far more than we do... and ever will.... Just sayin.
85% of wildfires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, equipment use and malfunctions, negligently discarded cigarettes, and intentional acts of arson. CLIMATE plays very little in the number of and severity of wild fires. If you want to truly help, manage the forests and limit the number of people living in and directly around these forested lands. The reason the cost of these fires is going up is NOT due to the number of fires or their severity like I pointed out, but has everything to do with the INCREASE IN HUMANS LIVING THERE.
Guess what? Killing off the beavers created tge Dust Bowl. Should'a been a clue.
Why the land now is so brown and dry? Why so much flooding? Why so much damage when there are forest fires? Why the water level in rivers and streams keep going down? It's not just global warming and climate change. Removed beavers from the land is what happened. And modern farmers and ranchers are still killing beavers on their property in the name of culling.
Wolves are just as effective.....
beaves
Screw the permits. Simply trap some beavers and release them where needed. Problem solved.
beavers are little workaholic engineers !!!
its innate behaviour, beavers in captivity still try to make dams with house hold stuff in a house, they dam up the door way with toys rugs and anything else they can scrounge up !!!
America needs to rewild
Scientists took this long to work this out?🙄
Howd that heffer become a newscaster
She’s your mom
Please do not use the phrase "Tipping Point". The phrase has no scientific definition and use of the phrase is empowering to folks who are anti-science and contribute only obfuscation to the discussion.
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
It’s a shame there’s no ocean nearby that could be used for desalination. Oh wait! There is one! Someone in California politics should get on the phone with Israel to see what they’ve done. I know, you have a few desalination plants, but maybe you could get something more up to date.
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. ;)
It was winter in the first pic. 🤪Everything is dead at that time regardless.
You should teach duck dynasty how to save beavers, they kill them on t.v.
Go beavs!
I like beavers