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  • Beaver in our Midst

    Ken Cole

    A guest article by Mike Settell On June 26th, 2010, I inspected the South Fork of Mink Creek to document conditions of the Box Canyon road culvert that was being plugged by beaver.  Like many roads throughout the west, the South Fork Road parallels the creek and so problems with the road-creek interface are, at best,…

  • Utah wildlife: Leave it to the beavers

    Ralph Maughan

    Utah gets a beaver management plan- Restoring beaver to a creek changes just about everything, mostly for the good, especially if there are no buildings or needed roads near the creek. Story on Utah’s first beaver management plan. Plan looks to use the large rodents as a watershed restoration tool. By Brett Prettyman. The Salt…

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