For International Beaver Day, we take a peek at one of nature"s most prolific engineers, the beaver. This sleek swimmer is at Schwabacher’s Landing, a boat landing along the east shore of the Snake River in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Beavers build dams to help keep their lodges and litters safe, but the positive impacts ripple through the environment: restoring wetlands, combating climate change, and removing fertilizer runoff. If we protect their habitat, beavers will pay it forward by creating the wetlands so many threatened or endangered species rely on.
Busy building wetlands
Today in History
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Sharp-dressed bug
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World Book Day
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Here comes summer
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It s Slovenia s Independence and Unity Day
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Summer huts in winter
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An opulent backdrop for a historic event
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Guiding ships to safety
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‘Ciao’ from Varenna
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Salzburg, Austria
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Veterans Day
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International Mountain Day
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Mount Fuji Day
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Crimson-rumped toucanet in the Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador
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A young bull moose in Denali National Park, Alaska
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Diwali
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Women s History Month
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Brown pelican, San Diego, California
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Light show at the skatepark
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Golden larches and Prusik Peak, the Enchantments, Washington
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Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia
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World Water Day
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Wildlife crossing, Wierden, Netherlands
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National Park Week: Wind Cave National Park
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The persistence of Perito Moreno
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A wheatear in Peak District National Park, England
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Just a couple of yellow-billed hornbills
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Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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At the shore of an inland sea
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Vineyards in the Mosel Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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First day of autumn
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