In wetlands, Fairfax picks up where beavers left off

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For decades, Fairfax County has refused to meddle in the ebbs and flows of the wetlands that define Huntley Meadows Park.

Beavers, instead, are the engineers of the watery environments, and their dams determine in large part where and how the wetlands that make up about half of the 1,400-acre park dry up or regenerate.

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