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Preston rancher restoring beaver to creek


Preston Rancher Jay Wilde had a dream — to restore beavers to Birch Creek.
His goal was to make Birch Creek a perennial stream. And provide water — for his cattle and horses.
But each time he released beavers — on his own nickel — they vanished.
“They didn’t stay. They didn’t survive or the predators got them, we don’t know,” Jay said. “It got pretty obvious to me that I didn’t know what I was doing. As far as restoring beaver.”
Then, Jay met Joe Wheaton from Utah State University. A professor of Watershed Sciences, Wheaton specializes in using beavers and low-tech woody structures to restore streams. ....

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