02 - Smokey the Beaver: Nature’s Firefighters with Dr. Emily Fairfax I'll Be Dammed

It’s been said that beavers are the only engineers that come in under budget and ahead of schedule.

With all of the work that beavers do on streams, how does this influence wildfires?

That’s exactly the question that we explore in this episode.

Dr. Fairfax has a PhD in Geological and Earth Sciences from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is an Assistant Professor at California State University Channel Islands.

Dr. Fairfax’s stop motion animation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM94B73bzE

Dr. Fairfax’s article:

Fairfax, E., and A. Whittle. 2020. Smokey the Beaver: beaver-dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western USA. Ecological Applications 30(8):e02225. 10.1002/eap. 2225. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.2225

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