Here in Offenbach we have a new inhabitant close to city forest. I'd love to know his name and yesterday I got to get sense of his work from the past months.
The water you see here everywhere is covering what's used to be a little meadow next to a small creek. The one Beaver dam managed to flood to entire area to the point that water's just taking the next lowest point to overflow which is a little bike lane heading up to the bridge spanning the little creek; only that this creek doesn't run anymore from that point on.
It's really amazing to see what one Beaver can accomplish and it reminded me of that story in Scotland where the whole country had flood and erosion issues with all their river, till they had the genius idea to release 11 Beavers into a specifically bad area. 3 Three years later, die whole area was re-naturated and had zero flooding issues left.
Human are admittedly pretty smart. But there are these amazing and humbling examples of where we can literally forget the last 100 years worth of hydro engineering tech and just let nature do it's thing — and it'll just be fixed and done. Period.
