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2024 Process-Based Restoration Year In Review 

August 14, 2025December 12, 2024
Participants gather for the third-annual Build Like a Beaver Training at Clarks Creek on the Plumas National Forest (Photo: Brock Dolman/OAEC)

2024 has been a hugely successful year for beaver and process-based restoration (PBR) in California. Working with many partners, including members of the California Process-Based Restoration Network, we successfully trained … Read more

Process-based restoration workshop with the Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance and Robinson Rancheria

December 5, 2024

Brock and Kate recently had the great pleasure of working with our long-time partners at Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance (TERA) to carry out a process-based restoration (PBR) workshop on Robinson Rancheria … Read more

Report Back From Another Successful Build Like a Beaver Training (BLAB)

October 28, 2024October 16, 2024
Participants gather for the third-annual Build Like a Beaver Training at Clarks Creek on the Plumas National Forest (Photo: Brock Dolman/OAEC)

The WATER Institute’s Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman have returned from an amazing four days of beaver and process-based restoration field tours, discussions, and onsite building opportunities at the California … Read more

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