Colorado woman embraces beavers, champions nature's engineers

Wetmore - Bubba smells funky.
It's no wonder. The two caged beavers in the back seat of Sherri Tippie's aging red Isuzu Trooper - affectionately named Bubba - are awash in their own dank musk as ice bags drip down their backs.

"I love that smell. Don't you just love it? Nothing smells better to me," says Sherri Tippie, inhaling deeply. "I was born for beavers."


As Colorado's lone licensed live trapper and relocator of beavers...


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