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Thirty years ago, the 1.2-mile stretch of Lake Creek in Idaho’s East Fork Salmon River watershed was a wasteland. Cattle had grazed it to nothing. Streambanks had collapsed, the soil was compacted, and the water ran warm and shallow. In 1993, Idaho Watersheds Project—now Western Watersheds Project—decided to do something radical: bid on the state grazing lease and rest the land from livestock. After years of court battles (and three Idaho Supreme Court victories in one day), we won the right to

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