Preston Rancher Jay Wilde had a dream – to restore beavers to Birch Creek. His goal was to make Birch Creek a perennial stream. And provide water – for his cattle and horses. But each time he released beavers – on his own nickel – they vanished. “They didn’t stay. They didn’t survive or the predators got them, we don’t know,” Wilde says. “It got pretty obvious to me that I didn’t know what I was doing. As far as restoring beaver.”