Jul. 31—Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC is notifying the public of blasting work that will occur in North Beaver Township. Surface blasting will occur on the Midland Large Non-Coal Surface Mine, ...

Biologist Kristin Evered spent much of this summer battling beavers in the Puyallup River watershed. The woman versus rodent scrimmage was over a dam that was drastically changing acres of wetlands.

The town has erected a special fence at a culvert to keep beavers from building a dam there and causing flood problems.

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...