MALHEUR COUNTY — Recreationists and other motorists on Pole Creek Road near Juntura in the past few months likely noticed large amounts of juniper trees cut down for several miles
Human-made beaver dams likely save natural wetland from extinction
Jan 20, 2021 Toshio Suzuki
A natural wetland in southeast Oregon was likely saved from extinction thanks to four years of collaboration and some human-made beaver dams.
In the Oregon high desert, about seven miles northeast of the town of Crane, Alder Creek bubbles to the surface surrounded by sagebrush and juniper trees.
The creek and wetland create an actual oasis in one of the driest and most remote sections of the state, said Ken Diebel with the Malheur Watershed Council, a chief BLM partner on the project.
“It’s really the only source of water out in a long way,” he said.