Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reports

A family of seven beavers slipped out of their kennels and curiously glided across the marshy waters of the South Fork Tule River deep in the southern Sierra Nevada earlier this month. It marked the historic comeback of a native species that was once abundant in the 71-mile California tributary and surrounding meadows but has been absent for over a century.

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