Beavers

Lexi Donarski scored 19 points, including 17 in the third quarter, and North Carolina beat Oregon State 70-49 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Project Beaver worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore the large rodents to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Trout Unlimited’s Northeast Oregon Hand Crew members do their work manually to avoid negative impact on beavers’ habitat.

On July 1, beavers will be classified solely as “furbearers,” an animal whose fur has commercial value, and no longer be classified as “predators.” Landowners will then need a state permit to kill beavers.

The Beavers are one of the biggest surprises in the Pac-12 this season and come into the game leading the conference in scoring (35.1 points per game) and ranking seventh nationally on the ground (245 yards per game) led by B.J. Baylor and an experienced offensive line.

Despite the fact that Americans have been relocating beavers all over the county since before the 1940s, a recent study by Oregon State University found genetic differences between beavers as close as neighboring watersheds.

Oregon tribes are reintroducing a species that creates important habitat for First Foods. But the Beaver State's laws don't work in the animal's favor.

Two environmental groups are suing a federal program that kills hundreds of beavers in Oregon. The groups said the practice harms more than just the state’s official animal.

We talk with our news roundtable about some of the biggest stories in the week's news. Then we we take up the state wildlife agency's decision to kill four wolves, the OSU Beavers women's basketball team making it to the final four, and the wild tale of a "bad boy" accountant.

We talk with our rotating panel of news watchers about some of the big stories of the week, and then with the author of "Once They Were Hats," a new natural history of the beaver.