beaver dam

noun

: a dam built by beavers
There's a beaver dam in the stream behind my house.

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Maine environmental officials pinned an April 2023 train derailment that hospitalized three people and spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel on a beaver dam Wednesday. James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is home to a new beaver dam after being installed by the natural areas team and a group of engineers Wednesday. Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2024 Tribal members and partners have spent years preparing the area, building beaver dam analogues to create conditions conducive to their return, McDarment said. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024 The Nature Conservancy and Google plan to run the model across the state sometime in 2024, a comprehensive search for every last beaver dam and pond. Ben Goldfarb, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023

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“Beaver dam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beaver%20dam. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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