Field Notes

To understand the beaver is to uncover a forgotten story about how this land once worked, how it was nearly broken, and why one of nature’s greatest engineers may be the key to restoring it again.

Beavers may not look like climate heroes, but their dams do the work of billion-dollar infrastructure. If beavers were a new technology, we’d call them revolutionary. In reality, they’re proof that sometimes the best climate solutions come not from machines, but from letting nature get back to work.