Sarah’s Reviews > Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter > Status Update

"According to a 2013 study published by geomorphologist Ellen Wohl, active beaver complexes on twenty-seven streams in Rocky Mountain National Park once stored more than 2.6 million megagrams of carbon - by my calculations, the equivalent of thirty-seven thousand acres of average American forests."

Beavers rock

"Conservation biologists refer to the notion of shifting baselines syndrome, a form of long-term amnesia that causes each successive generation to accept its own degraded ecology as normal. ... Every year our standards slip a little further; every year we lose more and remember less."

:( Ugh, this hurts my soul.

“Over eight hours a parade of tribal, federal, and university scientists - clad almost exclusively in flannel, the customary uniform of northwestern biologist-“

Um, I think you mean ALL biologists