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The Oakland Post

Beaver Fest honors OU’s wetland engineers

Beaver Fest honors OU’s wetland engineers

Cael Tanner, Features Editor November 5, 2025

Oakland University students, faculty and community organizations gathered at the Habitat in the Oakland Center on Thursday, Oct. 30, for the second annual Beaver Fest, a celebration of the university’s...

Photo courtesy of Sandra Troxell-Smith

Opinion: Dam good engineers — The unsung architects of the wild

Lauren Gustavson and Shelby Shull April 23, 2025

By now most of the campus community is aware that Oakland University is home to a mated pair of beavers who’re living in a beautiful new wetland next to the bio-preserve. Imagine the lull of a babbling...

Photo courtesy of Sandra Troxell-Smith

Letter to the editor: What Beaver?

Andrea Knutson, Contributor February 21, 2024

Recently the Oakland University community was informed that a beaver had moved into the campus’s biological preserve and made itself at home. Indeed, since that announcement, we’ve been able to confirm...

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