[Python] rasterio DLL load failed while importing _vsiopener

Anybody out there using Rasterio in Anaconda? I'm having some trouble getting it to load properly. I'm working in a Jupyter notebook in a new Anaconda env created in terminal with:

conda create -n GeoEnv python=3.13.3 numpy matplotlib scikit-learn scipy seaborn pandas xarray gdal rasterio geopandas rioxarray notebook

That gives gdal 3.10.3 and rasterio 1.4.3.

When I fire up my notebook and start loading libraries, I get the following:

import os
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import xarray as xr
import rasterio


output:

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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 6
4 import numpy as np
5 import xarray as xr
----> 6 import rasterio

File C:\Users\Public\PublicPrograms\anaconda3\envs\GeoEnv\Lib\site-packages\rasterio\__init__.py:27
25 from rasterio._base import DatasetBase
26 from rasterio._io import Statistics
---> 27 from rasterio._vsiopener import _opener_registration
28 from rasterio._show_versions import show_versions
29 from rasterio._version import gdal_version, get_geos_version, get_proj_version

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _vsiopener: The specified procedure could not be found.


When I browse to the specified location, _vsiopener.cp313-win_amd64.pyd exists.

Anybody have any idea what's up? I've reinstalled rasterio and tried downgrading one version (to 1.4.2) but had no success with either one.

thanks a bunch for any thoughts.

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