Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado River will change

Re:Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado Rive... by monkeynotes on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:32PM (#32198394)

Wait, what? You'd need hundreds of thousands of "small ponds" in the woods to approximate a comparison with a human mega reservoir like Lake Mead and associated reservoirs. I don't really understand the comparison.

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Re:Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado Rive... by hinkley on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:50AM (#32200487)

I think you're underestimating the extent of beaver altered terrain in the west. Estimates are between 60 and 400 million beaver before the fur trade started. We are currently sitting at 6-12 million and there are a number of watersheds where they have to be reintroduced because there are no populations in that area.

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Re:Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado Rive... by Amezarak on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:20AM (#32202648)

I was actually reading the other day about beavers and supposedly as much as 10% of North America was covered in beaver-built reservoirs and ponds. There were a lot of beavers.

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