Alan Gofinski

But, you know, I give them credit for trying.

Emily gives them credit because she, too, is trying to bring more beavers out into the wild where they might be able to do some good for the planet.

Although that did not used to be her job.

Far from it.

She used to be an engineer who worked on... Weapons.

Weapons?

Nuclear weapons.

Whoa.

Very different career path.

But she happened to turn on the TV one night and catch a nature documentary.

And they were showing all these aerial shots of beaver dams and wetlands in the desert, and they were bright green.

And I was like, what?

Beavers live in the desert?

How can they keep it green when everything's so dry?

And she realized that just like her...

Beavers were engineers.

Using all of their engineering to live a good life.

And mend the world around them.

And I wanted that for myself, so I started studying beavers and I haven't looked back since.

Emily hung up her nuclear weapons coat and put on some rubber overalls for a new job following beavers through wetlands to try to learn how they do what they do.