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Beaver Dam Analogs Could Boost Wyoming Water Storage, TU Says
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- Nick Walrath, Trout Unlimited manager, builds beaver dam analogs to boost water storage in Wyoming.
- Walrath has built about 500 starter-home beaver dams in Green River headwaters.
- Rancher Jackson Ramsay maintains over 100 beaver dams on his Wyoming ranch.
- Utah State University traps and quarantines 100 beavers annually since 2019 for release.
- Walrath says replicating starter-home dams a hundred or thousand times across Colorado River basin could improve water systems.
