Dams: Spillways and Parachuting Beavers
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Why would scientists drop beavers from a place to create dams?
Simply, a dam is a structure that blocks a waterway and allows the water to be used differently. There are natural and human-made dam. Learn how people use dams in their everyday lives and find out how scientists once airdropped beavers to improve back country habitat.
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Dams: Spillways and Parachuting Beavers
Special | 5m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Simply, a dam is a structure that blocks a waterway and allows the water to be used differently. There are natural and human-made dam. Learn how people use dams in their everyday lives and find out how scientists once airdropped beavers to improve back country habitat.
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Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by Sparklight, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.