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A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: The End of Winter

Inside Climate News · Text and photos by David Sassoon · last updated
The winter that barely came afforded the beavers here an unusually active season—a reminder of their ecological dominance in North America before Europeans arrived.

Text and photos by David Sassoon

PLEASANT VALLEY, Mass.—A section of the Yokun Trail at the southern flank of the pond was flooded and closed because the beavers had been busy. Their dam building earlier in the winter had submerged a man-made footbridge. Word was that they had also built a new lodge for themselves. Its construction had taken them only three weeks. 

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