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Open Space and Trails plans summer of study to address crowding

Pitkin County Open Space & Trails’ Liza Mitchell secures a camera pointed at a newly built dam in the Roaring Fork River on Northstar in Aspen on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. The camera takes still images and the team wants to monitor the movement at the dam and when it breaks up at the end of the winter. The dam is believed to have been built by local beavers sometime in November. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) A beaver lodge protrudes into the Roaring Fork River in the Northstar Nature Preser...