 | Photo courtesy of Walt Anderson
A group of 10 students from Walt Anderson’s Wetland Ecology and Management class at Prescott College spent nearly two weeks last summer walking, wading and even swimming the upper reach of the Verde River, counting beaver dams and dens as part of a study funded by The Nature Conservancy to better understand the river’s beaver population. |
UPPER VERDE - When Ewing Young returned from his second trapping expedition across Arizona's Gila River watershed in 1830, he had in his possession 1,500 beaver pelts.
Two years ago, The Nature Conservancy offered to fund a study of the Verde River's beaver population as part of its overall effort to understand and ultimately help protect the river.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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