https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/we-dont-deserve-beavers-superfund-mine-cleanup?utm_source=greenlife&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

"...As many as 200 million beavers once felled trees and dammed North America’s waterways. But beginning in the 17th century, the fur trade wiped out close to 99 percent of the rodent’s population. The population is slowly rebounding. Today, there are around 15 million beavers in North America. Reintroductions are happening across the United States, from Washington to Wyoming. While Native people have long understood and respected the role of beavers in riparian ecosystems, some ecologists in the US are still coming around to the fact that beavers are a vital part of a healthy river system—and that they might be the key to buffering landscapes from the impacts of human activities and climate change, whether that’s agricultural pollution or wildfire..."

we are starting to see a resurgence of beavers along the Pennypack Creek.

Before I was aware of their presence, I told my husband that I could swear I had seen a capybara on the loose! It was near nightfall so, I really wasn’t sure.

- So happy to learn that Beavers are coming back!