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During our recent beaver coexistence training and tour we saw how devices such as Pond Levelers make human-beaver coexistence easy while ensuring neighborhoods receive the climate-stabilizing benefits that beaver provide.![]()
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Cathy of @ConnectedEcology is a BeaverCorps Beaver Coexistence Professional who designed and secured permits for two new structures installed during our fall field training. When asked how living alongside beaver could benefit this suburban Sierra Nevada foothill community, she shared,![]()
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“It is important to notice that by sustaining aquatic habitat for all the abundant wildlife in the neighborhood, we are maintaining a well-hydrated green space that is less likely to burn if a fire were to come through. Here, there is also a change in how water moves over the land during storms. As it moves through the neighborhood, it spreads out in the beaver ponds, which slows the water down. The presence of their dams softens the impact of a sudden rush of water flowing through this place.” ![]()
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Read our latest WATER news story to learn more about beaver coexistence and our new California Beaver Help Desk.![]()
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The California Beaver Help Desk is a partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, whose Nature Based Solutions: Wetlands and Mountain Meadows Grant Program makes this work possible.
This fall, the WATER Institute took our Fuels to Flows Campaign on tour across California to share how holistic, process-based restoration builds watershed resilience, especially in the uplands, while reducing the risk of catastrophic fire.![]()
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Watch this season’s newest videos to learn how this impactful campaign inspires systems thinking and transforms siloed fuel load reduction treatments into holistic restoration practices that address fire, water, and carbon cycles together.![]()
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Learn more here: oaec.org/news/fuels-to-flows-goes-on-tour/![]()
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Video 1: Brock Dolman, WATER Institute Co-Director, shares the basis of the Fuels to Flows campaign at this year’s Build Like a Beaver training | Renée Rhodes/OAEC![]()
Video 2: Kate Lundquist, WATER Institute Co-Director, teaches proper gully stuffing form for the Build Like a Beaver cohort. Gully stuffing is one technique in the Fuels to Flows toolkit. | Renée Rhodes/OAEC![]()
Pic 1: Brock presenting at Build Like a Beaver | Renée Rhodes/OAEC![]()
Pic 2: Brock presenting at California Landscape Stewardship Network 11th Convening ![]()
Pic 3: Kate checking in on an eastern Sierra site to see the results of a Swift Water Design PBR treatment that OAEC contributed to earlier this year. | Brock Dolman/OAEC![]()
Pic 4: Kate and Brock with Eastern Sierra Land Trust talk organizers | Brock Dolman/OAEC![]()
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