Recommended reading ahead of workshops:

Reading Ahead of Course:
Depending on how much time you do or don't have, 

For a compelling and comprehensive overview of Beaver Assisted Restoration I recommend reading Ben Goldfarb's Eager:

• Goldfarb B. 2018. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Chelsea Green Publishing. White River Junction, Vermont. 309 pp.

For Background on Beaver

• Baker BW and Hill EP. 2003. Beaver (Castor Canadensis). Feldhamer GA, Thompson BC and Chapman JA (Eds), Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management and Conservation. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 288-310.

For Beaver Assisted Restoration of Fish Populations

• Bouwes N, Weber N, Jordan CE, Saunders WC, Tattam IA, Volk C, Wheaton JM and Pollock MM. 2016.  Ecosystem experiment reveals benefits of natural and simulated beaver dams to a threatened population of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Scientific Reports. 6: 28581. DOI: 10.1038/srep28581.

​For Adaptive Management

• Bouwes N, Bennett S and Wheaton JM. 2016.  Adapting Adaptive Management for Testing the Effectiveness of Stream Restoration: An Intensively Monitored Watershed Example. Fisheries. 41: 2: pp. 84-91.  DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2015.1127806

For 'Letting the Rodent do the Work':

• Goldfarb B. 2018. Beavers, Rebooted: Artificial beaver dams are a hot restoration strategy, but the projects aren't always welcome. Science. 360(6393): 1058-1061. DOI: 10.1126/science.360.6393.1058.

Follow Up Papers:
We have put together a beaver bibliography for you as well as direct you to specific readings for each workshop topic.

Required texts for USU Course

We will rely primarily on Ben Goldfarb's new Eager: The surprising secret life of beaver and why they mater and augment that with primary literature for course readings. Our syllabus tracks the narrative of Ben's book well and he does an excellent job of bringing in references to the scientific literature where appropriate. However, there are also three highly recommended texts for this course. See here for required course on the USU Campus Store site. 

• Hood GA. 2011. The Beaver Manifesto. Rocky Mountain Books: Toranto, Canada, 130 pp. 
• Muller-Schwarze. 2011 Beaver: Its Life and Impact. ISBN 978081450105.
• Dolin EJ. 2010. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 442 pp.