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Nearly 30,000 people in northern California evacuated as raging wildfire spreads
(www.theguardian.com)
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Technically, they help where there isn't year round flow by daming it and keeping it there longer...
Like, this is a real thing with real studies.
Surface level might only look like a small area, but that water seeps into the ground for much further.
Which helps vegation, and that causes more water to be retained, being back new creeks and rivers that more beavers than dam.
Like bro, the first beavers in 75 years were released last year in NorCal...
Give em a minute
I think you misunderstood the headline. Beavers are not extinct in CA other than the one place in your article. I'm well aware of the impact of beavers on reintroducing and rehabilitating wetlands. I live on one of the rivers where beavers were reintroduced in the 1940's. I literally work with ecologists and hydrologists that work on some of these projects.
But guess what? That same river basin that has had beavers damming it for more than 75 years and has had a ton of work from the forestry service, CCC, and beavers had a massive wildfire two years ago. Reintroducing beavers is not enough to stop wildfires in California. There's literally not enough water and streams compared to the area of forest.
edit: but cool, just downvote and move on when shown to be wrong. Leave this to the people that have some knowledge of the issue