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<div><font face="Arial">Excerpt: "The Methow Beaver Project, now
in its ninth year, relocates beavers to tributaries in the upper
reaches of the Methow watershed. The goal is to restore beavers to
their historical habitat and allow them to do what comes naturally-
build dams and create ponds that store water both above and below
ground.<br>
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"Water held in those storage basins is released gradually
throughout the warm months when it is needed for fish, wildlife and
irrigation. That slow release has the added benefit of keeping water
in tributaries cooler, which enhances habitat for fish and other
creatures, said Woodruff, a biologist with the U.S. Forest
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<div><font face="Arial">"Climate change models predict
dramatically lower snowpacks in the future. As humans consider ways to
adapt to the changes resulting from a warming climate, beavers have
some lessons to offer, according to Woodruff."<font size="-1"
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>http://methowvalleynews.com/2016/01/23/beavers-may-be-part-of-answer<span
></span>-to-climate-change/</u></font></font><br>
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"The outlines of the carbon cycle, in organisms at any rate, have
been evident since Joseph Priestley's day. The critical step,
'obviously', is the photosynthetic reduction of carbon
dioxide."<br>
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Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles.<br>
Scientific American, September 1970<br>
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