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They did do it for a profit motive. Through whatever instincts or thought processes the beavers had, they figured that they would benefit from damming the river. The dam creates favorable conditions for hunting, nesting, and storing food. These benefits are a sort of profit. Money is a convenient kind of profit, because you can easily turn it into whatever other kind of thing you want and you can store it for later use - and also it is convenient to talk about in economic terms, since it is uniform and easily quantifiable. But no one (or, few people anyway) want money purely for the sake of having money - they want money because it allows them to have other things. Food, housing, good conditions for mating and raising their young.

Sorry. The beavers were only in it for themselves.

Clearly these beavers don't know the Rules of Acquisition.

They used Jira

It was probably just the first result on the image search of "beaver dam aerial shot."

We are the extinction event

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They took our jobs!

gee golly that's a great comment!

I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that's the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.

The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.

But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.

Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:

• Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
• Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
• Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
• Untreated human sewage
• Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
• Runoff from abandoned mines

Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?

I mean, the dam is self-repairing.

Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn't need safety features because a sane person doesn't expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.

Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.

Thanks, I just had it stuffed