Beaver Resources
There is a whole world of people working on beaver advocacy, non-lethal management, restoration, and more. Check out our links to the rest of the beaver-sphere.
Beaver advocates and organizations
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- The Beaver Institute, Mike Callahan (MA)
- Beaver Management Forum (Facebook)
- Beavers Northwest, Elyssa Kerr (WA)
- Beavers, Wetlands and Wildlife, Sharon Brown (NY)
- The California Process-Based Restoration Network (CA)
- The Fairfield Beavers, Virginia Holsworth (CA)
- Give a Dam, Nichole Fox (CO)
- The Lands Council Beaver Solution (WA)
- Mid Klamath Watershed Council, Will Harling (CA)
- Montana Beaver Working Group, Shelby Weigand (MT)
- Occidental Arts and Ecology Center WATER Institute, Kate Lundquist & Brock Dolman (CA)
- Scott River Watershed Council, Charnna Gilmore (CA)
- The Seventh Generation Institute, Cathryn Wild (NM)
- Sierra Wildlife Coalition, Sherry Guzzi (CA, NV)
- SLO Beaver Brigade, Audrey Taub (CA)
- Tulalip Beaver Project (WA)
- Tule River Tribe Beaver Project (CA)
- Watershed Guardians, Mike Settell (ID)
- Wild Earth Guardians, Chris Smith (NM)
- Working with Beavers (Canada)
- Worth A Dam, Heidi Perryman (CA)
Beaver restoration and non-lethal management guides
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- The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT)
- Beaver – Our Watershed Partner by Lorne Fitch, Cows and Fish, 2016
- The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands and Floodplains by Gregory Lewallen, Chris Jordan, Kent Woodruff, Michael Pollock, and Janine Castro, 2023
- Beaver Restoration Toolbox: A Collection of Insights, Resources and Expert Contacts to Guide Riparian Restoration Projects that Capitalize on the Engineering Capacity of the North American Beaver by Karl Malcolm, 2013
- Beavers in the San Joaquin Valley by Sustainable Conservation, 2024
- Landowners’ Guide to Nonlethal Beaver Solutions: How to Help Beavers and Benefit From Them At The Same Time by Animal Protection of New Mexico, 2012
- Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual by Joe Wheaton, Stephen Bennett, Nick Bouwes, Jeremy Maestas and Scott Shahverdian, 2019
- Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Pocket Field Guide by Wheaton JM, Wheaton A, Maestas J, Bennett S, Bouwes N, Shahveridan S, Camp R, Jordan C, Macfarlane W, Portugal E, Weber N. 2019
- Planning for Beavers Manual: Anticipating Beavers Designing Restoration Projects, Prepared by Jen Vaderhoof, King County Water and Land Resources Division, Seattle, Washington, 2022
- Report on the Efficacy and Comparative Costs of Using Flow Devices to Resolve Conflicts with North American Beavers along Roadways in the Coastal Plain of Virginia, submitted by Stephanie L. Boyles, Christopher Newport Univ., 2006
- Working with Beaver for Better Habitat Naturally by Sherri Tippie, Wildlife 2000, 2010
- Working with Beaver to Restore Salmon Habitat in the Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed: Design Rationale and Hypotheses by Pollock, M. M., J. M. Wheaton, N. Bouwes, C. Volk, N. Weber, and C. E. Jordan, 2012. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS–NWFSC–120
Non-lethal beaver management device installers
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Beaver relocation practitioners and programs in the west
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- The Beaver Advocacy Committee of the South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership, Leonard and Lois Houston (OR)
- The Beaver Ecology & Relocation Center (Utah State University), Nate Norman (UT)
- The Lands Council Beaver Solution (WA)
- The Methow Beaver Project, Alexa Whipple (WA)
- The Tulalip Beaver Project, Molly Alves (WA)
- Wildlife 2000, Sherri Tippie (CO)
- Yakima Beaver Project, Melissa Babik (WA)
Beaver ecology, benefits to communities, salmon, birds, and climate change
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- Beaver and Climate Change Adaptation in North America: A Simple, Cost-Effective Strategy for the National Forest System by WildEarth Guardians, Grand Canyon Trust and Beaver Solutions, 2011
- Beaver as a Climate Change Adaptation Tool: Concepts and Priority Sites in New Mexico by Cathryn Wild, Seventh Generation Institute, 2011
- Beaver and Process-Based Restoration Build Momentum in California! by Kate Lundquist, Brock Dolman, and Hannah Wilton, 2022
- Beavers—Printable Mini-Zine by Fiona Barnacle, 2023
- The Beaver, Its Life and Impact (second edition), by Dietland Müller-Schwarze, 2011
- The Beaver Manifesto by Glynnis Hood, 2011
- Beavers, Meadows and Climate Change in Child’s Meadow, California, Project Contact Sarah Yarnell, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
- Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip, 2022
- Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb, 2018
- Hydrologic and Geomorphic Effect of Beaver Dams and Their Influence on Fishes by Michael M. Pollock, Morgan Heim and Danielle Werner (American Fisheries Society Symposium 37, 2003)
- The Importance of Beaver Ponds to Coho Salmon Production in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Washington, USA by Michael Pollock, George R. Pess, Timothy J. Beechie and David R. Montgomery (North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 2004)
- Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse, 2016
- Relationships between Willow Flycatcher and Beaver-Modified Stream Reaches in Sierra Nevada Montane Meadows. Report to The Nature Conservancy by Campos, B. R., H. L. Loffland, and R. D. Burnett. 2019.
- Smokey the Beaver: beaver-dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western United States by Emily Fairfax and Andrew Whittle (Ecological Applications, 2020).
Historic range of beaver in California
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- Novel Physical Evidence that Beaver Historically were Native to the Sierra Nevada by James, C. D. and R. B. Lanman (California Fish and Game 98:129-132, 2012)
- The Historical Range of Beaver in the Sierra Nevada: a Review of the Evidence by Lanman, R. B., H. Perryman, B. Dolman and C. D. James (California Fish and Game 98:65-80, 2012)
- The Historical Range of Beaver (Castor canadensis) in Coastal California: an Updated Review of the Evidence by Lanman, C. W., K. Lundquist, H. Perryman, J. E. Asarian, B. Dolman, R. B. Lanman, and M. M. Pollock (California Fish and Game 99:193-221, 2013)
- The Historic Range of Beaver in the North Coast of California: a Review of the Evidence by K. Lundquist, et al., 2013
