Bringing more beavers to watersheds is a powerful drought-fighting tool, experts say
A beaver sits in the Green River, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, near Green River, Wyo. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)
GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) — On Jackson Ramsay's family ranch late in the summer, there were few signs it had just weathered the worst-ever winter snowpack and record-setting heat.
Water twisted unhurriedly through the land, splayed into various branches that rejoined to form pools behind mounds of piled sticks. Young willows stretched from the bank across an expanse roughly the length of a football field, fed from moisture below.
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