Beavers Save The Day!

The firefighters of the forest

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How do beavers build homes?

Challenge: build your own dam!

Beavers collect rocks, mud, and branches and pile them together to build a leak proof dam.

What can you use around your house to build a dam of your own?

How do beavers reduce wildfire spread?

Take a look at an area that had experienced a wildfire, what do you notice about the parts that stayed green?

Why did that happen?

Because water doesn't burn!

When beavers make dams, they make big ponds that soak the soil with water, making big areas that can't burn easily.

Animals can take refuge in the ponds.

These pockets of water slow the spread of wildfires because make unburnable areas!

Check out how it works in this neat animation!

Let's learn a bit of history and the importance of beavers with these videos!

Our Beaver Zine!

Click the arrows below to flip through our zine. Or download it here!

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Beaver Wacky Word Game

Make your own wacky story about how beavers helped save the day!

Take out a pen and paper and write down each word you choose, then open the full story and see what you came up with! *Inspired by a game that rhymes with Chadlibs.

Click here to download a printable version.

  • Pick your words

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  • Make your story

    It can be said that beavers are nature’s ______ (profession). Beavers are ______ (adjective) builders and can build dams with branches they cut with their own ______ (adjective) teeth to create wetlands. Wetlands are home to many other ______ (creatures). Birds, butterflies, frogs, salamanders, and all sort of other ______ (creatures) use wetlands. Wetlands raise the water table in the surrounding area. That means that there is ______(noun) available to plants nearby even during ______(adjective) summer. Some ______(noun) are specially adapted to live in these wetland conditions. Deer enjoy eating the ______(adjective) plants that grow in the ______(place) and wetlands. Frogs love ______(verb ending in -ing) around in the water. Birds come there to nest and lay their ______(noun). And beavers swim around the ponds all year long. In fact, beavers even ______ (verb) inside the dams that they build. ______(number) family of beavers can live inside a beaver dam. Beavers can make dams out of branches, homes for their families, and wetlands for others.