58 relocated beavers restore Mount St. Helens blast zone into thriving wetland
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·1 viewsOver four decades after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption devastated a Washington river valley with volcanic sediment, a small group of 58 relocated beavers has played a key role in rehabilitating the landscape. The beavers built dams and created wetlands that enabled native plants, fish, and wildlife to return to the once-barren area. The natural recovery has been widely praised as a remarkable conservation success story. However, environmentalists are now concerned that a proposed government plan to heighten a sediment retention structure in the area could reverse years of painstaking ecological restoration.
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