Beaverland by Leila Philip
How One Weird Rodent Made America
A lyrical blend of natural history and cultural narrative, the book shows how beavers—master dam-builders—engineered North American waterways and created wetlands that shaped ecosystems, Indigenous livelihoods, and colonial economies; it traces the fur trade’s near-eradication of beaver populations, the ecological collapse that followed, and contemporary efforts to reintroduce beavers as a cost-effective means of restoring habitat, improving water resilience, and repairing human relationships with the landscape, combining scientific research, historical anecdotes, and personal observation to argue for their central role in healing ecosystems.
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