Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North A

“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, h

By the end of the 19th century both beaver species had been extirpated from large portions of their native ranges. The global decline in beaver populations was