Rivers in the desert West live on a knife's edge. Drought, overuse, and decades of human alteration have pushed many tributaries of the Colorado River Basin toward collapse, stranding fish and leaving banks vulnerable to wildfire. In 2019, a team of Utah researchers tried something simple: let beavers do the restoration work. The Idea Behind the Experiment The Utah State … [Read more...] about Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. 6 years later, here are the results.
