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Interesting links on beaver

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Click on map to use an interactive map of occurrence records of beaver from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

General Information on Beaver

  • Pictures of Beaver - Encyclopedia of Life
  • BBC Nature Wildlife Fact Sheet on Beaver
  • Beaver Dam Information Site
  • Beaver in the Adirondacks - A useful page on beaver maintained by SUNY ESF Adirondack Ecological Center
  • Why do beavers build dams? - From How Stuff Works.
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Beaver (from BBC Nature) 
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Beavers in Restoration

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  • The Beaver Restoration Guidebook - USFW, NOAA, PSU, USFS (official page)
  • The Methow Beaver Project - Methow Conservancy
  • The Lands Council's 'The Beaver Solution'
  • The Grand Canyon Trust's Beaver Project - Restoration planed for the Three Forestsin southern Utah
  • Leaving it to Beavers in Washington - Restoring Nature's Hydrologists
  • Better ways to manage Utah's Beavers - Featuring our workshop's own Mary O'Brien'
  • 'The ecosystem engineer: Research looks at beavers’ role in river restoration' - This is an article from the Sticky Tounge that talks about the Burchsted et al. (2010) article looking at the ability of beaver to help restore forested headwaters.
  • Beavers as Climate Heros - 'WildEarth Guardians is working to advance beaver restoration and protection on national forests and other public lands in the American West as a means to enhance riparian/wetland ecosystem resilience across the American West.'
  • Beaver Assisted Restoration - Your short course instructors are featured here on Oregon Field guide for their work in Bridge Creek on studying how beaver can be used to help restore incised streams to the benefit of steelhead
  • Boulder Mountain Reintroduction - Boulder Community Alliance & Grand Canyon Trust.
    • 'GCT Utah beaver restoration program doing great work' - June 2012


BEAVERS in Conservation

  • The Beaver Institute
  • Worth a Dam - MartinezBeavers.org - Beaver were found in downtown Martinez and whole community has organized around making sure they can stay there. This website is a great resource for more general beaver information as well.
  • The Beaver Advocacy Committee - Organizers of the State of the Beaver Conference in Oregon
  • Airborne Beavers Fight Floods - Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Idaho Department of Fish & Game was parachuting beavers into forests to provide flood control.
  • Beaver Solutions -  by Mike Callahan
  • Beaver Believer - by Susan Alan on AgInfo
  • Beavers Wetlands and Wildlife - A nonprofit group dedicated to beaver advocacy
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Beaver in the NEWS

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A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune, a segment on NPR's All Thing's Considered, and a segment on Utah Public Radio's Wild About Utah all help highlight the use of beaver as a potential river restoration agent. They also speak to the idea that beaver might be helpful in buffering anticipated impacts from climate change. Beaver are finding themselves in the news more and more:
  • USU Scientists Lead Innovative Wetlands Effort with Beavers, Walmart - Utah State Today, October 22, 2015. Mary-Ann Muffoletto. See also  this summary of media stories associated with this article. 
  • 'As Busy as Beavers' - Herald Journal - Bridgerland Edition - June 2015
  • 'For Rivers and Streams Messiness Matters' - Radio segment on UPR's The Source by Jennifer Pemberton - April 2015.
  • 'Parachuting Beavers Into Idaho's Wilderness? Yes, It Really Happened' - Samantha Wright, Boise State Public Radio - Jan 2015. See also the recently found video! The actual study: 
    • Heter, E.W., 1950. Transplanting Beaver by Airplane and Parachute. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 14(2): 143-147.
  • 'Leave it to beavers: California joins other states in embracing the rodent' - San Jose Mercury News - Dec 2014
  • Beavers: Nature's Engineer - 90.9 KRCL's RadioActive - August 2014
  • Beaver Dam Mapping App Now Available for Citizen Scientists - KCPW - Explore Utah Science - July 2014
  • Beavers take over from engineers at restored Wilson Creek - Courier Journal - Feb 2014
  • 'Dam! Beavers have been busy sequestering carbon' - New Scientist - July 2013
  • 'Beavers: Nature's first restoration engineers' - ecotrust Blog -May 2013
  • 'Call Them the Beaver Believers' - The Daily Astorian, January 2013 
  • 'The World Needs Wolves' - New York Times, September 2012
  • 'Utah moving beavers to improve habitat, streams' Associated Press - May 2012
  • 'Watershed council works to convince Benton County landowners of benefits of returning beavers' - The Republic (Indiana) - Dec 2011
  • 'N. America's Earliest Beaver Found Near Dayville' - Sept 2011
  • 'Beavers: The Original Army Corps of Engineers' -Wild About Utah on Utah Public Radio's Wild About Utah(Holy Strand) - April 2010
  • 'America's Frontier Fur Rush' - July 2010 - NPR On Point Interview with Eric Jay Dolin (Author of Fur, Fortune and Empire'
  • 'Leave it to Beaver' - read story and see video at Salt Lake Tribune - Oct 2009
  • 'Beaver and Restoration - The Rest of the Story' - Some cautionary notes in High Country News - June 2009

  • 'With Trouble on the Range, Ranchers Wish They Could Leave It to Beavers' - Wall Street Journal Article
  • 'Beavers Offer Solution to Climate Change' - Listen to story on NPR
  • 'Mother Nature's Little Helpers: The Busy Beaver May be Key to Region's Water Issues' - read story in Spokesman Review
  • See also the recent post on 'Largest known beaver dam discovered'
  • Beaver survival a bright spot in rough week - in The Times Leader by Tom Venesky
  • Wildlife vs. the city: Can’t we get along?
  • Archaeologist finds ancient beaver teeth in eastern Oregon - Earliest Record of Animal in North America - The Oregonian 
  • Eager Beaver Engineer Ecosystems - Segment on NPR's Living on Earth

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  • Home
    • Beaver News
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    • Upcoming & Current Workshops & Courses >
      • Open Erollment >
        • 2019 - Beaver Translocation
        • 2019 - USU WATS 6860 >
          • Course Materials
        • 2019 -Construction Workshop
      • Bespoke/Private >
        • 2019 SGI LTPBR
    • Past Workshops & Courses >
      • Open Enrollment >
        • 2011 - ICRRR Workshop
        • 2012 - ICRRR Workshop
        • 2017 - USU WATS 6860 >
          • Course Materials
        • 2018 - USU WATS 6860 >
          • Course Materials
        • 2018 -Construction Workhsop
      • Bespoke >
        • 2012 - UWCC Workshop
        • 2013 - RRNW Short Course
        • 2013 - NRCS Workshop
        • 2014 - Klamath Watershed Partnership /OWEB Workshop
        • 2015 - UDWR Workshop
        • 2015 - USFS Workshop
        • 2016 - SGI Workshop
        • 2018 - John Day Workshop
        • 2018 - NRCS, PF, SGI >
          • NRCS - Idaho >
            • Workshop Materials
          • NRCS - Utah >
            • Cedar City Workshop Materials
            • Logan Workshop Materials
          • NRCS - Wyoming >
            • Lander Workshop Materials
          • NRCS - Nevada >
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          • NRCS Specific Resources
  • Resources
    • Restoration Manual
    • Beaver Restoration Topics >
      • Beaver Ecology & Hydrogeomorphic Feedbacks >
        • Introductions, Expectations & Overview
        • Beaver Ecology & History
        • Ecological & Hydrogeomorphic Feedbacks of Beaver Dams
        • Monitoring Beaver Activity - Understanding the Beaver Dam Cycle
      • Restoration & Conservation Regulations >
        • Potential Problems Using Beaver for Restoration & Conservation
        • Overview of Conservation & Restoration Practices
        • Existing Beaver Restoration Projects
        • Regulatory Framework Relevant to Beaver
        • Expectation Management: Communicating to Public/Stakeholders/Decision Makers
        • Assessing Potential for Beaver in Restoration & Conservation
        • Field Examples of Assessing Capacity of Landscape to Support Beaver
      • Designing & Monitoring Restoration Projects With Beaver >
        • General Design Considerations & Concepts
        • Design Process at Bridge Creek
        • Monitoring Design, Maintenance & Adaptive Management
        • Monitoring Findings in Bridge Creek
        • Curtis Creek Field Trip
    • Beaver Literature
    • Interesting Links
    • Videos & Movies
    • Need Help Planning, Designing & Building?
    • External LInks >
      • BRAT - Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool
      • Restoration Consortium @ USU
      • The Beaver Institute
      • Wheaton ETAL Lab
      • Anabranch Solutions