Fifty years ago, Colorado realized it had made a mistake. Its rivers, once alive with the movement of playful otters cutting through currents and pressing their tracks into sandbars, had gone quiet. “They were killed out,” said Colorado Parks and Wildlife Species Coordinator for…
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