Two Beavers vs. a $10 Million Flood-Control Project

Two beavers moved into a creek running straight through downtown Martinez, California — and built a 30-foot dam that tore through a $10 million flood-control project the city had just finished.
So in 2007, the city made the call: the beavers had to go. In California, that meant killing them.
The town refused. Kids ran petitions out of the local deli. Neighbors held a candlelit vigil at the dam. They started a group called Worth a Dam — and the council caved, piping the dam to manage the water and letting the family stay.
What happened next, nobody saw coming. Those dams turned a trickle into ponds. The ponds bred insects, the insects fed fish, and a dead creek started rebuilding itself from the bottom up. By 2008, steelhead and river otters were back. Mink followed. In 2010, they recorded a fish in that creek that had never been documented there in its history.
The animals the city tried to exterminate had engineered an entire ecosystem — in the middle of downtown. And it happened in Martinez: the town where John Muir, the father of the national parks, spent the last 25 years of his life.
🏃 Run it yourself. The Alhambra Creek Trail runs right past it:

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