Beaver showing off his incisors (from BBC Nature)

General Information about Beaver

• Pictures of Beaver - Encyclopedia of Life
  
• BBC Nature Wildlife Fact Sheet on Beaver
• Beaver Dam Information Site
• Beaver in the Adirondacks - A useful page on beaver maintained by SUNY ESF Adirondack Ecological Center
• Why do beavers build dams? - From How Stuff Works.
  

Beavers in the News

A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune, a segment on NPR's All Thing's Considered, and a segment on Utah Public Radio's Wild About Utah all help highlight the use of beaver as a potential river restoration agent. They also speak to the idea that beaver might be helpful in buffering anticipated impacts from climate change. Beaver are finding themselves in the news more and more:

• 'Watershed council works to convince Benton County landowners of benefits of returning beavers' - The Republic (Indiana) - Dec 2011
  
• 'N. America's Earliest Beaver Found Near Dayville' - Sept 2011
  
• 'Beavers: The Original Army Corps of Engineers' -Wild About Utah on Utah Public Radio (Holy Strand) - April 2010
  
• 'Leave it to Beaver' - read story and see video at Salt Lake Tribune - Oct 2009
  
• 'With Trouble on the Range, Ranchers Wish They Could Leave It to Beavers' - Wall Street Journal Article
  
• 'Beavers Offer Solution to Climate Change' - Listen to story on NPR
• 'Mother Nature's Little Helpers: The Busy Beaver May be Key to Region's Water Issues' - read story in Spokesman Review
• See also the recent post on 'Largest known beaver dam discovered'
• Beaver survival a bright spot in rough week - in The Times Leader by Tom Venesky
• Wildlife vs. the city: Can’t we get along?
• Archaeologist finds ancient beaver teeth in eastern Oregon - Earliest Record of Animal in North America - The Oregonian 
• Eager Beaver Engineer Ecosystems - Segment on NPR's Living on Earth
  

Beavers in Restoration

• The Lands Council's 'The Beaver Solution'
  

• The Grand Canyon Trust's Beaver Project - Restoration planed for the Three Forests in southern Utah
• Leaving it to Beavers in Washington - Restoring Nature's Hydrologists
• Better ways to manage Utah's Beavers - Featuring our workshop's own Mary O'Brien'
• 'The ecosystem engineer: Research looks at beavers’ role in river restoration' - This is an article from the Sticky Tounge that talks about the Burchsted et al. (2010) article looking at the ability of beaver to help restore forested headwaters.
  
• Beavers as Climate Heros - 'WildEarth Guardians is working to advance beaver restoration and protection on national forests and other public lands in the American West as a means to enhance riparian/wetland ecosystem resilience across the American West.'
• Beaver Assisted Restoration - Your short course instructors are featured here on Oregon Field guide for their work in Bridge Creek on studying how beaver can be used to help restore incised streams to the benefit of steelhead
• Boulder Mountain Reintroduction - Boulder Community Alliance.

Beavers in Conservation

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  Worth a Dam - MartinezBeavers.org - Beaver were found in downtown Martinez and whole community has organized around making sure they can stay there. This website is a great resource for more general beaver information as well.
• The Beaver Advocacy Committee - Organizers of the State of the Beaver Conference in Oregon
• Airborne Beavers Fight Floods - Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Idaho Department of Fish & Game was parachuting beavers into forests to provide flood control.
• Beaver Solutions -  by Mike Callahan
• Beaver Believer - by Susan Alan on AgInfo
  
• Beavers Wetlands and Wildlife - A nonprofit group dedicated to beaver advocacy