Ep. 385: A Wild New World
The MeatEater Podcast
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What Happened to the Buffalo?
Over about eight years, these guys trap west of the divide and what is mostly now Montana and Idaho and Utah, they trap 35,000 beavers. They liberate our ruin, 6,000 beaver ponds, which had stored water, of course, all over that country. That water providing campsites for native people, water for wildlife, all those beaver dams now fall into disrepair and drain. The streams begin running through them and tear the dams up so that they've affected a kind of an ecological transformation of the entire country by removing the beaver and its dams both.
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