US EditionCzech Government Officials Spent 5 years Planning, Beavers Built Their Dam for Free in 48 hours
- Beavers in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic built several dams in one night, completing a project which officials had been arguing about for weeks.
- The local beaver colony saved planners CZK 30,000,000 by constructing a dam on a bypass gully, protecting valuable wetland areas.
- Bohumil Fiaer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, stated, 'It saved several million crowns, retained several cubic meters of water, and created a very effective natural wetland.'
- Jaroslav Obermajer from the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency remarked, 'Beavers always know best. The places where they build dams are always chosen just right—better than when we design it on paper.
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Artificial beaver dams are installed in a forest in Lenzburg AG. The goal is to moisten the forest floor.
Beavers Engineer Long-Delayed Czech Wetlands Project
A colony of eight beavers in the Czech Republic have flooded and built dams on a former army training site that is now a protected area, saving taxpayers $1.2 million, reported AFP. Officials had wanted to construct a dam to protect endangered crayfish in the Klabava River from acidic water and sediment spilling into the waterway from two nearby ponds. “Beavers always know best. The places where they build dams are always chosen just right – bet…
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Seven years of negotiations have delayed the construction of a dam on the Klabava River southwest of Prague. Now the plans can be scrapped, because beavers in the Czech river have already arrived.
Beavers Complete Czech Government’s Dam Project After Seven Years of Delays
A beaver in a River. Credit: hehaden – CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr. Beavers have saved the Czech government and its citizens $1.2 million by flooding what used to be an army training site, where a dam was planned, by building one of their own. Local officials had intended to build a dam to protect the Klabava River and its ecosystem, which includes the endangered crayfish, from acid water spilling over from surrounding ponds. This proposed project w…
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