I'm John Bachelor Professor Lila Philip, her book is Beaverland how one weird

rodent made America.

Two huge rainstorms and then a hurricane named Ida.

We're now at an Edwin Wei Teel's sanctuary for he's a naturalist who's left us,

but behind is a sanctuary for all manner of creatures, including beavers, and one day

the beaver dam that is constructed, series of beaver dams, but the big one is breached

and the floodwaters pour into the neighborhood.

And the phones start ringing.

And there is a solution and we call upon Mike Callahan of Beaver Solutions and what is the solution

professor what does it look like when we don't have enough beavers and we have to

deal with climate change upon us? Well this is a really interesting example of where just the director of that

local Audubon, Sarah Hemenwey, was educated about beavers and she understood their value in bringing water and biodiversity.

She knew that particular spot in particular is a migratory stopover for a lot of important migratory birds.

She also had been watching the water and so when people were calling up and saying you've got

to kill the beavers because this is too

dangerous I mean it was dangerous nine million gallons of water came out of that

breached dam you know overnight the caretaker said it sounded like a train had gone through the forest.

So this can happen.

And instead of trapping out the beaver and breaking the dam and taking the pond apart,

she called this company Beaver Solutions where they specialize in putting in what are called flow devices. So what they basically did, I watched them, they put a 40 foot pipe through the dam.

They've figured out that if they put this pipe 40 feet out if the inlet is 40 feet from the dam the beavers don't stop but try to stop it up with sticks. They put a cage around the end so so the beavers, even if no animals get in, etc.

They know exactly how to do this, so it works.

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