# Are Beavers the Solution for Drought? | Full Episode | Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien

Free with YouTube's ads, posted by PBS.

Watch more of this series: https://to.pbs.org/4wkQIAG There were once 400 million beavers in North America until trapping nearly wiped them out. Miles O’Brien travels from a Wyoming ranch to a Minnesota lab tracing the rebound of these industrious rodents. Rancher Tom Chant is a “beaver believer” after seeing his dry and dusty creek turn lush once beaver dams moved in, proving nature’s original engineers may be the West’s best hope against drought.

Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue | Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien

This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate

Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: https://www.youtube.com/@PBS

Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR

FOLLOW US:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PBS/ X: https://twitter.com/PBS/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PBS/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbs Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pbs

Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien Miles O'Brien travels the globe searching for solutions to climate, water, and health crises. From building sea curtains in Antarctica to restoring wildlife in Argentina, the answers are closer than we think thanks to people with a “Resolve to Solve.”

#beaver #drought #science #ecosystem

- What it is: Full episode
- Series: [Full episodes from PBS](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/library/rights-holders/series/c332f267142f)
- Next episode: [Inside Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier | Full Episode | Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/rights-holders/YzLra9Yp4FI)
- Length: 26 min
- Rights holder: [PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization](https://www.pbs.org) (its site links the channel: https://www.pbs.org/)
- Channel: [PBS](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyeJxD05YnoDquRMNBfBqw)
- Plays: Only in AS, GU, MP, PR, UM, United States and VI, as its rights holder set it on YouTube
- Who can watch here: Adult profiles and older (no rating is recorded on YouTube, so adults only)
- Made for kids: No, as YouTube designates it
- On YouTube: [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o103U6DNorU)

It plays in YouTube's embedded player on its page here, loaded only when Play is pressed; YouTube's Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) apply to it.