5k Years Later, Beavers Return to the High Plains of West Texas

In the last decades, Beavers were silently and illegally released in Europe and Southamerica (were they are a pest now). I would not discard a similar pattern here. They are physically blocked by arid land (Can only travel near water courses and die if they are forced to stay out of the water for many days).

Is proven than its presence protects against wildfire, creates biodiversity, and fix small patches of life in desertic places suffering from dry spells so, can be an opportunity to heal the area. The photos of arid places before and after beavers appear show impressive changes in the beavers territory.

http://southlandbeaver.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-mojave-river...

Beavers in Texas, wild! Where I grew up, the beaver had begun recovering from the ravages of European high-fashion fed by Hudson Bay Co. What I saw made them look like little wetlands and flood-control engineers. Now they're called a 'keystone species'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species

This is a pleasant story. It's nice to know there can still be mystery around us, even near urban areas.

Thank you for sharing!

wildlife in general with the exception of insects has flourished over the past 20 years here in upstate New York ( Norwich area ) probably due to massive depopulation ( globalization forced shutdown of most local factories ) and fewer hunters ... beavers, turkeys, black bear, bobcat etc used to be extremely rare now are making a come back

cities get bigger yet towns get smaller seems to be the trend not just locally but across the globe