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When you wipe out hundreds of millions of fevers, you know, you cause all of those beaver

dams to break down and all of those ponds and wetlands drains.

And, you know, North America, which had once been this lush, wet, green, blue place, really

desertified.

That was Ben Goldfarb, an independent environmental journalist and the award-winning author of Eager,

The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.

Stay tuned as we're about to explore how we've wiped out 99% of our beavers in North America,

the vital role that beavers play in enriching wild landscapes and building our collective resilience against climate change,

why our modern ideas of what healthy ecosystems look like may have been wrong and more.

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