Humans tend to think of floods as disastrous but, 'they're not disastrous from an ecological standpoint,' notes one expert. 'Quite the contrary, they're extremely healthy for rivers, and especially for a river like the Yellowstone.”
, a geomorphologist at the University of New Mexico. Those fast-draining gravels replaced the fine, water-retaining sandy soil favored by grasses and cottonwoods. Instead, lodgepole pines moved in.
“We're going to have an amazing year for cottonwood regeneration next year, because cottonwood needs fresh sand beaches to germinate,” says Bosse. “We're going to have an entirely new river on the Yellowstone next year, and it will be fascinating to explore.”on eastern Montana’s Musselshell River, she saw carpets of young cottonwoods spring up. There, she worked on a program to compensate landowners who protected the tender young plants from grazing cattle.
In the long-term, advocates of unbound rivers see the recent floods as an opportunity to change our infrastructure so it’s less at risk and more beneficial to people and the ecosystem. The rain on snowfall events and extreme weather that caused this year’s flood are likely to occur more frequently as the climate changes. With that in mind, park officials have discussed moving the severely damaged road along the Gardner River to higher ground.
However that infrastructure is rebuilt, it will take years. For now, the northern part of the park, including the Lamar Valley, remains closed.
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