Ben Goldfarb’s 2018 book, Eager The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter is a page-turned I couldn’t put down. His lilting descriptions knit together the complex story of beavers as ecosystem engineers of our entire continent. I plan to go hear him speak in Leavenworth at Wenatchee River Institute on March 13, 6:30-8:30pm.
![Castor canadensis American beaver](https://i0.wp.com/www.wenatcheenaturalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/beaver2.jpg?resize=600%2C398&ssl=1)
Goldfarb begins this interview with a description of beavers as extraordinary landscape-scale agents of transformation … keystone species.
![cottonwood felled by beaver](https://i0.wp.com/www.wenatcheenaturalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/beaver-eaten-cottonwood.jpg?resize=800%2C603&ssl=1)