By New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — One of the first New Mexico projects to receive funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 had nothing to do with New Mexico.
It was a $184,986 study of beaver dams in Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming.
With money from the stimulus package, the National Science Foundation awarded the grant to the University of New Mexico “to document beaver-related sediments in floodplains of small streams in the greater Yellowstone area, in deposits dating from the present back to the end of the last glaciation about 12,000 years ago (the Holocene epoch).”
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