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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

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Solar Power Could Come at Expense of Wildlife

Don't it always seem to go….

"That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a (31 million acre solar farm) parking lot"

....With apologies to Counting Crows: “Big Yellow Taxi”

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Why Beavers Were Parachuted Into the Idaho Wilderness 73 Years Ago

Parachuting beavers – Jump ahead to 7:20 to see how the Idaho Fish and Game Department relocated beavers using parachutes. The department made this 14-minute film in the 1950s to show how fur-bearing animals are live-trapped and translocated.

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Some articles we read:

How a controversial poison saved Utah Lake

Ninety-five-thousand-acre Utah Lake is a major water source for the Great Salt Lake. If it dries up or sickens, so does the Great Salt Lake. Fifteen years ago, it was

Jackson Hole News&GuideTed Williams Writers on the Range

New conservation agreement in southern Alberta preserves endangered Prairie grasslands — Calgary Herald

‘The Prairie grasslands of Canada are one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet.’

San Antonio company is fighting climate change 1 acre of cattle grazing land at a time — San Antonio Express-News

A San Antonio startup is taking the fight against climate change to cowboy country. The idea behind Grassroots Carbon, headquartered on Houston Street, can be mowed down to this: Cattle eat grass. When grass grows, it draws carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Therefore, the grazing practices used by ranchers in Texas and across the U.S. can have tremendous impact on global warming.

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