Emily Fairfax

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Resource Management, Cal State Channel Islands

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California scientists are looking to beavers to help mitigate fire damage through a new program called the beaver restoration unit. Why are these animals so necessary?

Boosting beaver population could help CA fight climate change

California scientists are looking to beavers to help mitigate fire damage through a new program called the beaver restoration unit. Why are these animals so necessary?

from Greater LA

As California continues to grapple with a mega-drought and wildfires, we’re trying to do whatever we can to help our parched landscapes and abate that wildfire threat.

Beavers to prevent wildfires? Conservationists are enlisting the help of these buck-toothed rodents

As California continues to grapple with a mega-drought and wildfires, we’re trying to do whatever we can to help our parched landscapes and abate that wildfire threat.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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