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Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Wildlife rehabilitator Josie Karam with one of her patients. (Photo by Megan Wilde)

By Megan Wilde

Josie Karam will never forget rescuing her first beaver. He was found on a street in downtown El Paso with both hips broken and a lacerated back. So Karam brought him to her home in El Paso, where she runs one of West Texas’ only three licensed wildlife-rehabilitation facilities. What’s it like to give wild animals a second chance at life?