beaver

Having a proactive statewide management plan, advocates said, can help educate the public about the importance of sustaining beaver populations, outline goals for their recovery, and help foster coexistence with communities.

President Biden signed an executive order last year that plans to conserve 30 percent of U.S. land and water by 2030, and a group of scientists recently released a blueprint of one way the ambitious goal could be met.

Wyoming Wildlife Foundation hopes the native species of cutthroat trout will increase in population.

Before the expansion of the West, there was an estimate of almost 600 million beavers throughout North America. But in the early 1800s, when unregulated…