damming

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Organisers said the chances of seeing the nocturnal animals during the day would be slim but added the tours would offer a first hand look at the animals' damming and digging skills.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2025

When beavers move into a stream or creek and begin building their damming complexes, the ponds and wetlands they create are an antidote to all these problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Habitat destruction, damming, and pollution have decimated local populations, such that many species are in dire need of help.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen