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Beaver kits snack on carrot and sweet potato at a bunkhouse where nuisance beavers are quarantined for three days before being relocated to a new watershed, in Millville, Utah on Nov 12, 2025.

Beaver kits snack on carrot and sweet potato at a bunkhouse in Millville, Utah on Nov 12.

PHOTO: KIM RAFF/NYTIMES

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UTAH - The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do.

But her dams, built around her lodge in Utah’s Bear River Mountains, ran afoul of a rancher. He said the flooding caused his sheep to get stuck in the mud.

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