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PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEITH LADZINSKI
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The chocolate-colored waters rushed down mountainsides and frightened and shocked people around Yellowstone National Park. But could the historic floods actually restore the iconic and culturally important landscape?
“As humans, we often think that floods are disastrous, and fires are disastrous, but they're really only disastrous because we put human lives and property in harm's way,” Scott Bosse, director of American River’s Northern Rockies office, tells Nat Geo. “They’re extremely healthy for rivers, and especially for a river like the Yellowstone.”
Stoneflies will benefit, as will the American Dippers who feast on them. So will osprey, eagles, and river otters, says Pat Byorth, who directs Trout Unlimited’s Montana Water Project. “This is a complete remodel of the aquatic ecosystem and it's a beautiful thing.”
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