GREEN RIVER, Wyo. — On Jackson Ramsay’s family ranch late in the summer, there were few signs it had just weathered the worst-ever winter snowpack and record-setting heat.
Water twisted unhurriedly through the land, splayed into various branches that rejoined to form pools behind mounds of piled sticks. Young willows stretched from the bank across an expanse roughly the length of a football field, fed from moisture below.
Then a familiar brown head emerged from a deep pool: a beaver.
“They’re thriving here,” Ramsay said, beaming at the creature. “They benefit us, and hopefully we benefit them.”"
Brittany Peterson reports for the Associated Press October 19, 2026.
Source: AP, 10/20/2026
