Scenic landscape photo of the Gila River Preserve.

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Gila River Wildlife

Trail camera photos from Gila River Preserve

Dr. Keith Geluso, a biology professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, had a hypothesis: the Gila River and its floodplain—with its natural flow regime—likely support a vast number of mammals. But there wasn’t much research. That’s why he set up a camera at our Gila River Preserve near Silver City. Here is a sampling of what he discovered.

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