Northwest Passages Book Club

Ben Goldfarb visits with Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review's Outdoors editor. In “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” environmental journalist Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers.