Saving the Dammed

Introduction:
-The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek
-The Great Drying
-A Watery Microcosm

January:
-Of Rocks and Ice
-The Setting
-The Rocks
-The Ice
-After the Glaciers
February:
-About Beavers
-The Meadow in February
-Worth a Dam
-About Beavers
-The Family Tree of Beavers
-The Southern Colonists
-Where Beavers Belong
March:
-Water Superheroes
-The Meadow in March
-Fire, Flood, and Drought
-Water Superheroes
April:
-Six Degrees of Connectivity
-A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil
-To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam
-Beavers Versus Glaciers
-Only Connect... or Disconnect
May:
-Plugging the Nutrient Leaks
-Biogeochemical Engineers
-Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost
June:
-The Thin Green Line
-The Beavers and the Forest
-The Thin Green Line
-Green Engineering
July:
-Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things
-A Fish in Every Pond
-Cutthroat Competition
August:
-Legacy Effects
-Creating a Fur Desert
-Colorado Mountain Men
-A Legacy of Absence
September:
-Alternate Realities
-Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands
-Nature Green in Tooth and Paw
October:
-Of Beavers and Humans
-Lessons Not Yet Learned
-Beaver Leas
-Appreciating Beavers
November:
-Beavers to the Rescue
-Leave it to Beavers
-Beavers to the Rescue
December:
-Saving the Dammed
-Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow
-Ecosystem Services
-Betting on Beavers

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