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The human beavers of the Weber
How TU staffers in Utah are taking their local landscapes back to the times of mountain men Rising out of the northwestern Uinta Mountains in Utah, the Weber River follows a serpentine path for 125 miles before making it to the Great Salt Lake. A couple hundred years ago, this area was prized by mountain…
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Be the beaver
Finding new appreciation for sleeping outdoors, for water, and for the work TU is doing to restore streams Falling asleep under the stars next to a crinkling creek is the best way to end a day. I learned this quickly as I began two months of conservation work in Oregon with the Northwest Youth Corps…
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New mapping tool puts beavers to work for Upper Columbia fisheries
By Crystal Elliot, Kodi Jo Jaspers, and Matt Mayfield Beavers and trout anglers are not strangers. Many of us have been startled while standing knee-deep in a trout stream when something big and brown and way larger than the fish we are targeting suddenly slips past. Beavers can cause headaches for land managers as they engineer streams and ponds…
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