WATER News & Events
The California Beaver Help Desk is Live!
We are proud to announce the launch of the first-ever California Beaver Help Desk! With our new online portal now live, beaver problems can become beaver solutions throughout all of California. … Read more
Build Like a Beaver Creates Watershed Resilience in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
In October, WATER Institute Co-Directors attended and taught at the 4th annual Build Like a Beaver (BLAB) training. This sold-out workshop was hosted by the California Process-Based Restoration Network, OAEC’s … Read more
The WATER Institute Brings Beaver Coexistence to California’s Central Valley
This September and October, the WATER Institute hosted our first-ever Beaver Coexistence Field Training and Tour alongside the Beaver Institute and Connected Ecology. The team focused on two sites in … Read more
Fuels to Flows Goes On Tour
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 while reducing the risk of catastrophic … Read more
New Media from Counterstream
Counterstream Media, a project fiscally sponsored by OAEC, has launched a couple of incredible new projects. If you’re in the Bay Area, you may have caught Counterstream Co-Founder and Director … Read more
Solar, Storage, and Security: Why We Built Our Own Microgrid
By Dave Henson, OAEC Executive Director In keeping with our work to create just and sustainable relationships with the land, each other, and future generations, the Occidental Arts & Ecology … Read more
WATER Institute Featured in Mongabay
The WATER Institute is proudly featured in a new two-part Mongabay series about beaver, their ecological importance, and the complexities of translocation and coexistence. In Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems, writer John Cannon reveals the … Read more
California “Beaver Bill” In the Wild
Brock Dolman, WATER Institute Co-Director and Assemblymember Damon Connolly promoting the “Beaver Bill” at a recent watershed council gathering. This summer, WATER Institute Co-Director Brock Dolman attended a gathering of … Read more
Meet the WATER Institute’s Newest Teammate
The WATER Institute team from left to right: Brock Dolman, Kate Lundquist, Renée Rhodes, and Grey Hayes We are excited to introduce Renée Rhodes as our incoming Associate Director of … Read more
Process-Based Restoration Gains Momentum in France
A team of participants bring process-based restoration to the Savasse uplands of the Chalon watershed, hosted by Association Rivière Rhône Alpes Auvergne (ARRA²) This spring, Occidental Art & Ecology Center … Read more
