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The Plan to Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the State
Gizmodo ^ | 10/17/15 3:30pm | Alissa Walker

Posted on 04/13/2016 8:52:13 AM PDT by thoughtomator

Ending the drought in the West will require rain—not too much rain—and smarter ways to collect and store that water. But something else that can keep things moist? Believe it or not: Beavers.

According to a story in Water Deeply, a group of ecologists have a plan to help repopulate the Central Coast of California with Castor canadensis, the large beavers which once roamed the state in great numbers. (Not to be confused with their ancestors, giant beavers that were seven feet long.) The idea is that beavers are nature’s hydrologists, engineering the way that water travels through the landscape:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: beavers; napl
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To: odawg

I like wet beavers.


41 posted on 04/13/2016 9:12:14 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: tet68

Ward, don’t you think....

Oh, never mind.


42 posted on 04/13/2016 9:12:25 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

LOL!


43 posted on 04/13/2016 9:12:57 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: thoughtomator

Need.More.Beavers.Now.


44 posted on 04/13/2016 9:13:05 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: M Kehoe

Are they good to eat?


45 posted on 04/13/2016 9:14:30 AM PDT by steve8714 (Why is Romney pushing me to Trump?)
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To: thoughtomator

Just get back the water rights California had until Jerry Brown gave them away as Governor decades ago, and for nothing I might add.

California always had droughts, we are a dry area, but we were never allowed to build in Southern CA without water rights from the north and after three good years of rain Jerry Brown gave them away and we suffer his executive action.


46 posted on 04/13/2016 9:14:33 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.e)
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To: bill1952

Wouldn’t it be great if they could only get beavers from North Carolina or Mississippi ?


47 posted on 04/13/2016 9:14:41 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Responsibility2nd

May of us here in SC can’t wait for out flagship university to one day play Oregon State.

‘Cocks versus the Beavers.


48 posted on 04/13/2016 9:14:46 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: thoughtomator

An old girlfriend of mine had the wettest Beav....

Er, never mind. LOL

Sorry, based on the Title of the Thread I had to go there.


49 posted on 04/13/2016 9:15:05 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: thoughtomator

50 posted on 04/13/2016 9:16:15 AM PDT by Solson ("Cruz takes "laying on of hands" to a whole 'nother level" - Amanda)
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To: thoughtomator
Not a bad idea, no way would the environmental wackos let them build man made dams so why not let the Beavers do it. Who is going to sue q beaver....
51 posted on 04/13/2016 9:18:30 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: thoughtomator




52 posted on 04/13/2016 9:18:31 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: bill1952

If that’s their plan, I’ve got at least two families of beaver in my pond that I will donate for this worthy cause. Come by and live trap them out and ship ‘em out west.


53 posted on 04/13/2016 9:19:53 AM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: thoughtomator

I thought California girls had been doing that for years.


54 posted on 04/13/2016 9:21:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: thoughtomator

55 posted on 04/13/2016 9:21:26 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: V_TWIN

Why would you link to an article that requires me to sign up?

That’s just cruel.


56 posted on 04/13/2016 9:26:08 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: steve8714

“Are they good to eat?”

Don’t know for sure, but I’ve had “deer,” and “cat.”

That is bad...

5.56mm


57 posted on 04/13/2016 9:28:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Responsibility2nd; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Wynona has already made an appearance.


58 posted on 04/13/2016 9:29:49 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I love Wynona’s big brown beaver.


59 posted on 04/13/2016 9:31:11 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: T-Bone Texan

When I googled it I went right to the article. had no idea sign up/in was necessary.


60 posted on 04/13/2016 9:33:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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