Tom Talks - Nature's Engineers: The Ecology of the Beaver

Beaver didn’t simply live in the water, they made the water. They made the pond, the marsh, the meadow. They made the places where hundreds of species and millions of creatures lived. And then one day they were gone-gone by the time European-Americans settled the area in the early 1800s. This is the tale of their former abundance and influence, their disappearance, and the promise of their recovery.