Leila Philip is the author of Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, and a professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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How The Humble Beaver Shaped A Continent
European settlers nearly wiped out the North American beaver. Bringing them back may soften future floods and fires.
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Honoring The Deep Weirdness That Is The Beaver
How smart are beavers? Why did they start building dams? We may never know, but Leila Philip’s new book ‘Beaverland’ starts the conversation.