Montana Beaver Working Group

Montana Beaver Working Group newsletter archives:

• May/June 2024
  Bridging the State with Our Stories; Welcome to Kyle Wonders, Region 3 Beaver Conflict Resolution Fellow; MWCC Fall Watershed Tour Save the Date; Ben Goldfarb on Arctic Beavers; Decision to Implement Beaver Dam Notching in Red Rock Creek; Navigating the Permitting and Regulatory Environment for Beaver-Related Projects: A Panel Discussion; Beavers Drive the Water Cycle; Beavers Played Important Part in the Lives of Ancient Humans
• March/April 2024
  Prairie Beaver Research on the Rise; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project Charting New Waters; New Webinars from National BWGs; Beavers and Drought Webinar; Navigating the Permitting and Regulatory Environment of Beaver-Related Projects (Panel Discussion); Montana BWG Spring Meeting; American Beaver and Freshwater Climate Resiliency in Washington State; Resilient Landscapes Resource List; Apex Predators and Food Webs in the Recovery of Beaver-Shaped Ecosystems; Short-Term Dynamics of Beaver Dam Flow States; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project Fellows; Prairie Aquatic Ecology Technician; Grassland Microclimate and Biodiversity Technician; Christine Stevens Wildlife Award
• Jan/Feb 2024
  What We Can Do to Help Our Traditional Foods; Montana Beaver Working Group: Spring Meeting; Utah State University Spring Semester Low-Tech Restoration Courses; 2024 LTPBR Workshop Series & LTPBR Trainings for Federal Agencies; Low Tech Solutions to Wetland Restoration; Montana Watershed Coordination Council: Annual Meeting; Winter Meeting Recording & 2023 Beaver Action Plan; Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes: Climate Change and Wetland Story Maps; How Beaver Dams and BDAs Affect Trout in Montana Headwaters Streams; The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie with Beavers; Beavers Have Engineered Ecosystems in the Tetons for Millennia; Spying on Beavers from Space Could Help Save California; Montana Drought Management Plan; Postdoctoral Fellowship in Landscape Ecology; Stream Restoration Project Manager and Stream Flow Project Manager
• Nov/Dec 2023
  Where There's a Will There's a Way; How Beaver Dams and BDAs Affect Trout in Montana Headwaters Streams; Montana Beaver Working Group-Winter Meeting; 2024 LTPBR Workshop Series, Fluvial Geomorphology Course, and Ecohydraulics Course; Beavers and their Role in Riparian Restoration in Montana; Arnold Coulee Project; Why Grazing Bison Could Be Good For the Planet; Wolves Alter the Trajectory of Forests by Shaping the Central Place Foraging Behaviour of an Ecosystem Engineer; Midwest Beaver Summit Recordings; Postdoctoral Fellowship in Landscape Ecology; Riparian Restoration Program Manager; Custer-Gallatin Forest Project Manager; Stream Protection Program Manager
  
• Sept/Oct 2023
  Changing the Climate: Sharing Conversations that Make Beavers Matter; Questions on Questions: UM Research Explores how BDAs Affect Carbon; Beavers on the Landscape Series; Beaver Walk and Talk; Beyond the Banks: Expanding Perspectives to Change our World; 2023 State of the Beaver Conference; A Tale of Tails: The Use of Eurasian Beaver Tails For Ageing and Individual Identification; The Beaver Way; A New Video Celebrates an Ambitious Restoration Project on the Wallowa River; Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Program
  
• July/August 2023
  Beavers Feature in Lolo National Forest Plan Revision; Working with Beavers Symposium; National Beaver Working Groups Open House; Beavers Uncovered Webinar Series: Beavers in the City; Beaver Blitz: Beaver Inventory Work Day; Beyond the Banks: Expanding Perspectives to Change our World; and Lower Blackfoot Ecosystem Analysis at the Watershed Scale
• May/June 2023
  Changing Lives, Conserving Life: A Conversation with Nick Hagan; Beyond the Banks: Expanding Perspectives to Change our World; Working with Beavers Symposium Update; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law restores mesic habitat in Idaho; Rewilding with Beavers: Improving Hydrology, Biodiversity, and Climate Resiliency; Beavers & Cattle, a new film from the Ruby Valley Strategic Alliance
• March/April 2023
  Expanding the Field: Beaver Habitat Monitoring on the Ground and in the Sky; relevant presentations at Crown Managers Partnership, Tracker Certification North America, and Working with Beavers conferences; new research on beavers benefitting terrestrial birds; new film from Intermountain West Joint Venture; new essay on beavers pointing a healing path forward
  
• January/February 2023
  A Watershed Moment for Beaver Policy: The Developing Alternative Mitigation Systems (DAMS) for Beavers Act; Restoring Riverscapes Workshop; Region 3 Beaver Conflict Resolution Specialist job opening; Winnett ACES Collaborative LTPBR workshop summary; Best Management Practices for Pond Levelers and Culvert Protection Systems Guide; Beaverland review; Planning for Beavers Manual; new resources on nature-based solutions and research on beaver-induced flow attenuation 
• October/November 2022
  Inspired by Ksik Stakii and the Amskapi Piikani: 2022 Fall Watershed Tour; Spring 2023 Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Courses; Putting Beavers to Work in Rocky Mountain National Park; Resources from Winnett ACES' Successful Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Workshop; Beavers Are Finally Getting the Rebrand They Deserve; Teaching While Doing - Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes Workshop: Building Partnerships and Technical Capacity to Improve Riverscape Health
• August/September 2022
  Restoring Emerald Islands: Collaborative Conservation at Work; 2022 Blackfeet Nation/MWCC Watershed Tour; LTPBR Workshop and Field Day in Winnett, MT; Life in the Land film series; nature-based solutions report; new research papers on rewilding and relocation with beavers; new books from fluvial geomorphologist Ellen Wohl; op-ed on beavers fighting climate change and drought; BeaverCon recordings
• June/July 2022
  On Being a Beaver Leader: Honoring Sarah Bates; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project 2021 Impact Report; Eurasian beavers' impact on the health of other wildlife; effectiveness of four different fencing techniques to prevent beavers from cutting trees; beavers and Oregon's high desert; deserving beavers; Beaver: The North American Freshwater Climate Action Plan; America the Beautiful Challenge Grant Program
• April/May 2022
  Montana Beaver Working Group leadership transition note from Sarah Bates; Alberta virtual field tour on living with beavers; Colorado Department of Transportation report with recommendations on beaver management along roads and the right-of-way; short film on Bonneville cutthroat trout stocking in Utah beaver ponds; new research on the political ecology of beaver mimicry
• January/February 2022
  The Montana Beaver Working Group’s Keystone Role; new long-term research on the ways beavers support ecosystem freshwater conservation and stability; new LTPBR film from The Nature Conservancy-Wyoming; recordings available for the Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project webinar and the Colorado Beaver Summit; reminder of ongoing LTPBR virtual training through Utah State University
• December 2021
  Low-tech process-based restoration focuses on Montana’s prairies; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project completes a successful third year; Blackfeet Ksik Stakii Project Watershed Stewardship Award presentation; new video on Dixie Creek (Nevada) recovery with beavers; low-tech process-based restoration virtual project tour in southwest Montana
• October 2021
  Advocating for beaver restoration in national forest plans; new research on beaver relocation; beavers and the Colorado wildfires; perceptions of stream restoration; interactive beaver exhibit at High Desert Museum
• August/September 2021
  Drought resilience through beaver mimicry with Blackfoot Challenge; University of Montana researchers exploring the impact of beaver mimicry on aquatic insects, carbon, and methane; new research on design criteria for process-based restoration; new research reevaluating lost river-wetland corridors; report on beaver ecosystem services
• May/June 2021
  A conversation with Frances Backhouse about her children’s book Beavers: Radical Rodents and Ecosystem Engineers; beavers featured in Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ quarterly report; beaver habitat survey webinar recordings and tools from Montana Natural Heritage Program; new research on thermal characteristics associated with BDAs
• April 2021
  Advancing the MT Beaver Action Plan; Montana Tech presentation on beaver and heavy metals; Association for State Wetland Managers and Bureau of Land Management 5-part webinar series; new webinar and report from the Miistakis Institute; new research deconstructing the process underlying beaver-related restoration; recordings from the California Beaver Summit; new article on beaver benefits during wildfire and drought
• February/March 2021
  Exploring the role of reference conditions in beaver restoration; Trout Unlimited Upper Columbia Beaver-Powered Decision Support System tool
• January 2021
  Preliminary results from BDA Feasibility Study on Lolo National Forest; new research to explore the effects of beaver mimicry on riparian food webs; article on beaver and wildfire; presentation Integrating Stream and Forest Restoration for Watershed Resilience presentation; Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission “living with beaver” video series
• November/December 2020
  Low-tech process-based restoration workshop in Lewiston with the NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife partnership; Working with Beaver for Riparian Health: How University Research Supports Conservation and Management webinar; Beavers without Borders film
• October 2020
  Big Hole Watershed Committee complements restoration with beaver conflict mitigation; Beaver Coalition seeks input to update Beaver Restoration Guidebook; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution virtual field trip; Miistakis Institute’s factsheet with cost-benefit analysis of beaver coexistence tools
• September 2020
  Beaver mimicry aims to restore habitat in north-central Montana; aspen workshop; webinar on siting and design for beaver restoration; new research on water storage, beavers & wildfire, and quantifying beaver impacts in watersheds/headwaters  
• August 2020
  Bureau of Land Management Low-Tech Process-Based Riverscape Restoration Strategy underway; Emily Fairfax talks beavers with National Wildlife Federation’s Artemis Program; low-tech wet meadow restoration resources; US Forest Service paper on ranchers, beavers, and stream restoration in western rangelands
• July 2020
  Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project at Council Grove State Park (with video); presentation on beaver ecology
• May/June 2020
  Montana Beaver Action Plan released; Helena-Lewis & Clark National Forest Plan calls out beaver for watershed health; Understanding Beavers as Natural Infrastructure Solution (Cows & Fish and the Miistakis Institute); beaver life history and ecology literature review; riparian and groundwater-dependent ecosystem assessment webinar
• April 2020
  Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project launches second year; beaver restoration strategy meeting recap; Big Sky Watershed Corps project support; research connecting beaver disturbance to channel/floodplain evolution and riparian plant recruitment; US Forest Service on the “stream evolution triangle”; Ranger Rick beaver learning activities
• February 2020
  Beaver presentations at University of Montana, Montana Tech, and more
• January 2020
  Developments for a Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool model in Montana; Montana Water Summit conversation; The Nature Conservancy’s monitoring protocol; Heidi Perryman’s resources on living with urban beavers; Montana Beaver Conflict Resolution Project at BeaverCON