Too many busy beavers can cause headaches. Donald Kolbert, a Stewartville outdoorsman who's watched beavers since he was a child, has studied beaver activities on a Mower County stream for four years.

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.

This past Sunday night was the last full moon of autumn. This particular full moon is often referred to as the Beaver Moon. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, this name probably comes from the ...