A pair of beavers is hard at work beside a creek in
western Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest
A pair of beavers is hard at work beside a creek In western Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest a resurgence of willow trees has drawn the beavers back to their ancestral home after a six-decade absence At the creek’s edge the female scoops up thick mud and leaves pressing the mass against her chest with her front paws as she trudges up the bank Not far from her the male gnaws on the trunk of a willow
