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Leave It to Beavers - Can they help us adapt to climate change
June, 2012 issue, The Atlantic, by:
In the 1820's, one of the largest corporations on Earth tried to kill every beaver in the Pacific Northwest. Britain's Hudson's Bay Company, threatened by the United States' westward expansion, sent trappers sweeping down the Columbia River watershed to exterminate all the beavers they found and harvest their valuable pelts.
