While you may have never seen beavers at work in your Bay Area city, researchers at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability are suggesting that these creatures' activity could have a positive long-term impact on climate change and droughts.
If you live in a Bay Area city, chances are you may never have seen beavers at work. But now researchers at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability are suggesting that their dam building prowess on creeks and rivers will be increasingly important if climate change and long cycles of drought continue. The evidence comes from a newly released study that mixes persuasive science with a good bit of luck.
"And we were set up to capture the hydrologic impacts of this event. And then also the... the impacts on water quality, because we had everything installed to collect samples and measure the things that you measure to determine water quality," says Dewey.By measuring changes in water quality, Dewey and his Stanford professor Scott Fendorf, Ph.D. were able to document the benefits, especially during drier years when water quality typically degrades.
The data comes at a time of increased interest in nurturing beaver activity, even in semi-urban settings like Martinez, where one celebrated group was discovered dam building in 2007. In a separate paper, Felicia Marcus, a Landreth Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Water in the West program, connects the dams to a drought strategy known as "nature based solutions."
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