Water Always Wins

Here on the West Devon site, beavers now number five, and they have constructed thirteen dams, creating thirteen ponds across their territory between 2011 and 2016. In slowing the water and spreading it laterally from the original stream, they have expanded the wetland area from about one thousand square feet to twenty thousand square feet. Together the ponds hold up to 264,000 gallons of additional water above ground. Since then, the beavers have not built additional ponds, but they continue to adjust the height and width of their dams, and the volume of water on the site continues to rise.