Our beaver coexistence work was highlighted in Alta Journal’s recent article “Leave it to Beavers.”
The article tells the story of beaver benefits, coexistence in California, and the 2025 BeaverCorps training we led in collaboration with the Beaver Institute and Cathy Mueller of Connected Ecology.
During the training, which took place in a Sierra Nevada foothill neighborhood, BeaverCorps trainees installed a pond leveler to regulate water in a neighborhood stream that houses a beaver dam. Concerned that the dam would cause flooding, the local community services district decided to pursue coexistence rather than lethal trapping. The neighborhood association worked with our California Beaver Coexistence Training and Support Program to secure the technical assistance and financial support that made the project possible.
From the article:
““Beaver conservation is important because it gets people talking who haven’t talked to each other before,” says Kate Lundquist, a director at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, in Sonoma County, who works on policies for healthy watersheds and how beavers can contribute to them.”
Read more about the BeaverCorps, statewide coexistence, and the California Beaver Help Desk in this latest article.
