Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...

SODA CREEK, Colorado (KCNC) — How do you change dried-up farmland back into the wetlands it used to be? Follow the beavers’ lead. The Soda Creek Restoration Project hopes to do just that. By creating ...

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB Sheep Creek, a few miles west of La Grande, feeds the headwaters of the Grande Ronde River. Over the years, the area — nestled in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest that ...

Several beaver dams that have been causing drainage problems near a creek and marsh in northwest Mississauga have been removed in order to restore crucial water flow in the area, the city says. In ...

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing recognition that they also are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps ...

Butte’s Blacktail Creek is home to all sorts of critters. On a recent afternoon, near the popular Ulrich-Schotte Nature Trail, a mink hopped across the path as red-winged blackbirds perched on fence ...

Juneau's planning commission approved a conditional use permit for the new utility to start building. The company says it ...