stock.adobe.com These aquatic rodents may appear to be destructive, but a new study has found that the benefits of reintroducing beavers to the Milwaukee River include helping prevent downstream flooding.
Beavers once roamed the land and waters of what we now call Wisconsin in abundance. They were used for food and warmth. Their fur became an essential currency, especially once European settlers arrived. Trapping of beavers made it so that by about 1730, beavers were locally extinct along the coastline of Wisconsin.
Now, there are calls for beavers to return not for their fur but for the potential impact they could have on flood mitigation in the Milwaukee River watershed. A recent collaborative study between the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee Riverkeeper and UW-Milwaukee analyzed the prospect of increased beavers on the watershed.
The first all-Black lineup in the NHL brings back memories for Nova Scotian Percy Paris. He was in the same spot about 50 years ago as part of the first all-Black line in Canadian university hockey in the early 1970s.
Posted: May 11, 2021 9:26 PM AT | Last Updated: May 12
From left, Bob Dawson, Percy Paris and Darrell Maxwell played for the Saint Mary s Huskies and made up the first all-Black line in Canadian university hockey in 1970.(Bob Dawson)
A historic night for Black athletes in the NHL brought back memories for Nova Scotian Percy Paris of his own days on the ice.
On Monday night, the Tampa Bay Lightning started three Black forwards in their regular-season finale against the Florida Panthers: Mathieu Joseph, Daniel Walcott and Gemel Smith.
Such a sight is a rarity in NHL history if not an absolute first.