5/31/2023 0 Comments The secret life of beavers![]() ![]() His profiles of the "beaver believers" and their successes (and sometimes failures) will help get more people out watching, supporting, and enjoying these furry ecological engineers. He makes it clear enough for the general reader, but detailed enough for a professional ecologist. Goldfarb provides a remarkable look into the effect beavers have on critical issues for America, drought relief, flood control, fisheries, and biodiversity. It should be required reading for every ecology and history student, land managers, ranchers, fishermen, developers and birdwatcher in America! This book rises to the level of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864), Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac (1948), Rachel Carson's, Silent Spring (1962), and Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature (2016). Ben Goldfarb's new book about beavers challenges us all to better understand what we have lost and what we can gain with the help of the industrious beaver. Every once in a while a book arrives that delivers a new and powerful environmental message. ![]()
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