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I'm John Bachelor with Professor Lila Philip of the College of Holy Cross.

Her new book is Beaverland, How One Weird Rodent Made America.

Not only that, but it's teaching America about the rivers.

The rivers that flood, the rivers that retreat in the drought, the rivers that are surrounded by settlements that are either flooded out

or too close when a flood comes. The professor introduces us to Dr. Denise Burtstead, and we go to

the Yale-Meyers Forest. And the professor invariably has an episode where she has to find a walking stick

because she winds up in these wetlands about to tumble into the water.

But here we are, we have a walking stick.

What are you learning from Dr. Birchstead, professor?

Well, I think the first thing that I learned from Dr. Berksted, who is a wonderful

researcher and lecturer, is that a river is not just the Hudson River or the Hussetonic or the

Connecticut River. It's really this intricate system of brooks and streams and creeks. It's

every little trickle of water that's going

through the land that's interconnected. We need to think of the river system as almost like a

fan of arteries and veins that spreads out through the land. And once you think about the river

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