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Phillip writes: "McGill is proud to be known in the #environmental restoration industry as the 'beaver whisperer.' He's evangelical in his belief that #beavers can help solve environmental problems. He thinks it is a tragedy that they are part of our history, but not part of our culture. Here in the #Chesapeake watershed, in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey...he has been striving since 2016 to help shift the culture around beavers and #stream restoration...

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"...by showcasing what he calls the 'ecosystem services' of #beavers. Let the rodents do the work is one of his mottos."

Phillip continues: "[McGill] has done enough #restoration work with beavers now to prove that these efforts work and can make a difference, saving his clients, which include individual landowners, farmers, towns, and municipalities, a great deal of money."

Here is the Ecotone website: http://www.ecotone-environmental.com/

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So the #Chesapeake Bay is such an interesting example of a #watershed in need of help. The pollution is so bad there that the EPA has it under a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL: https://www.epa.gov/chesapeake-bay-tmdl

From #Beaverland: "the Chesapeake is the largest watershed on the Atlantic seaboard, intersected by over a hundred #rivers and thousands of #creeks. And every drop of #rain that falls in the watershed...finds its way into the Chesapeake Bay.

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