A U.S. rancher let the beavers back and the water did something insane.
In 1990, Maggie Creek was drying up every summer. The water ran fast and shallow, and by August it turned into a dusty gravel bed. It was too warm for trout. The willows were gone.That same year, a young rancher named John Griggs was hired at a cattle ranch covering roughly 200,000 acres. One of his first jobs was to take a box of dynamite to Maggie Creek and blow up a beaver dam. He knew one thin…