Episode description

Jakob Shockey, founder of the Beaver Coalition, has spent years researching and working to preserve, restore, and understand beaver habitats. He discusses with Bret the rarely discussed impacts of Beavers on all aspects of our world, and how we have thrown this equilibrium out of balance by trapping beavers and industrializing north America with little regard for preserving the factors that made it as hospitable as it has been.

Find Jakob at his website: https://www.jakobshockey.com/

Find the Beaver Coalition at: https://www.beavercoalition.org/

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(05:07) Sponsors
(08:37) Common beavers and gold rush
(20:14) Beavers, family structure, and felling trees
(32:55) Tent making bats
(37:00) Beavers' fur and South America
(41:40) Back to Natural History of beavers
(53:20) Weather changing beavers
(01:01:05) Pivots
(01:06:40) Conservatives and progressives and environmental degradation
(01:19:22) Ecuador
(01:24:30) Managing land ownership and habitat
(01:36:20) Other animals reliant on beavers
(01:41:30) Beaver dams
(01:51:40) Beavers and fire suppression
(02:00:40) Trapped beavers and population sinks
(02:07:00) Beavers and ages of dams
(02:12:00) Vegetarian diggers
(02:18:00) Role for humans
(02:21:40) Evergreen's fatal flaw
(02:44:18) Twitter
(02:51:55) Wrap up

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