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[Image Description: Four MCC members wade across a river. In the background, there are hillsides covered in gold from the quaking aspens, and deep green pine trees.]

If You Build It They Will Come

A crew stands next to a small creek and a BDA structure.

MCC WRT Crew 7
Shoshone National Forest
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

7 truckloads of willows harvested.
Endless knots tied.
Bundles of sticks.
1 black bear.

3 beaver dams.
2 post pounders. 2 generators.
Both packed in 1/2 mile.
1 stalled Cannycom cart.

118 posts pounded.
Thousands of willows weaved: Underground basket weaving.
Hundreds of buckets of mud.
Topping waders, wheenie of the day.

2 rock dams. 4 post-assisted BDAs.
1 brown trout spotted.
775 ft of river bed surveyed.
Habitat improved.
Sediment captured.
Pictures taken, and donuts eaten.
Hopeful that the beaver will return.

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