Nebraskaland

TOP LEFT: Brandon Black of Tilden retrieves a wood duck he harvested while hunting a beaver pond in the old channel of the Elkhorn River at Red Wing WMA. BOTTOM: Prior to the 2019 fl ood, the Elkhorn River occupied the channel at the top of this photo captured in September 2020. The fl ood sent the river back into a channel it hadn't occupied for a century. TOP RIGHT: A grass spider stands on a beaver pond fi lled with ramshorn and bladder snails, moss and rushes.

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