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Books like Ben Goldfarb's Eager has taught us that beavers have been a part of Buffalo Peaks Ranch for a very long time, and especially prominent before the first ranchers arrived. Over the past few years, there has been a real resurgence of innovative beaverworks along our stretch of the South Platte River. A new landscape is emerging, and we're excited to see what the beavers are planning next!

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America?s lakes and rivers. Today, a growing coalition of ?Beaver Believers? ?including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens? recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them.

?A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents... Goldfarb has built a masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.? ? The Washington Post