Sentences with phrase «beavers dam water»

Beavers dam water systems, raising floods into surrounding shore forests.

Not exact matches

That, plus the diversity of other wildlife found — frogs, fish, deerlets, hares — led Harington to conclude that around 3 million to 4 million years ago, the site was a beaver - dammed watering hole.

Beavers turn out to be hugely important: they are veritable ecological engineers, with their dams, water meadows and selective logging having modified much of the low - lying land from the northernmost US to Canada's Arctic treeline.

Trees prevent landslides; beavers build dams that slow water, creating wetlands, flood plains and habitats for different trees and animals.

A study found that the beaver is playing an increasing part in climate change because the dams they build for shelter create shallow, stagnant ponds of water which allow biological material to build up on the bottom of the river.

With Battle Creek providing the water to several ponds created by beaver dams, and several views of Puget Sound, Camano Island and the Olympic Mountains.

How many millions of cubic meters of water do ya think where held by beaver dams?

a. Aquifer levels rise / fall, Beavers build dams, Rocks fall, streams change course, ground cover burns, pack rats build nests, marmots store food, bears water the tree; there are numerous factors that change ground water availability to any plant.

To make an analogy: It would be wrong to argue that a beaver dam can't produce a pond because all the dam does is delay slightly the flow of the water down the stream.

That is like saying that a beaver dam can't create a pond because all it does is merely delay the flow of water.