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Edition #140 · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 2842 positive stories
Environment & Climate

Beavers Are Having a Moment

Reasons to Be Cheerful 2026-09-07
Beavers Are Having a Moment

Over the last 20 years, Oregon’s wilderness has suffered big time. Salmon have disappeared, wildfires have scoured the hills and drought has parched once-fertile soils. Years of small fixes - a little forest thinning here, a little fish-ladder installation there - have helped, but not nearly enough to keep up with the destruction. By the start of the 2020s, Oregon had more ecologically impaired waterways than almost any other state, and environmentalists were ready for a serious solution. Someth

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