Crystal DiMiceli is HBCF director Alison Zak's colleague, fellow EWCLer (graduate of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders fellowship), and host of the wonderful Forces for Nature podcast. She recently interviewed Alison for her show that "celebrates people who are doing…
Read More New Podcast: The Surprising Benefits of Beavers with Alison Zak
The new Beaver Habitat Landowner Compensation Program encourages human-beaver coexistence by incentivizing landowners to allow beavers to remain on their property creating wetland habitat, storing water, improving water quality, and providing other benefits. Beaver-Hab-Lease-Prog-Info-SheetDownload If you are interested in applying…
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Bay-Journal-pieceDownload Thanks so much to Tom Horton (reporter), David Harp (photographer), and the Bay Journal for sharing our story!
Who: YOU! HBCF supporters, beaver believers, and the beaver curious 🙂 Everyone is welcome! What: A film screening of 'The Beaver Believers' documentary with Q&A to follow Where: The Open Book at 104 Main St. Warrenton, VA 20186 When: November…
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Meet Jane Braswell We're thrilled to welcome Jane, our new intern for the Fall 2023 semester. Jane is working towards her M.Sc. degree at George Mason University, validating tools to better understand wildlife species’ physiological responses to environmental pressures. Her…
You saw a furry, brown critter. So, was it a beaver? This is a muskrat. Not a beav. Muskrats are smaller than beavers with long, skinny, hairy tails, but they do often share habitat. When they swim at the surface,…
"HBCF put in a flow device almost six months ago and now we have no more beaver issues! Everything flows like usual and we don't have to worry about our dam overflowing. We are so grateful, and our resident beaver…
To celebrate, here are a few of the ways that beavers, and the wetlands they create, help turtles: Spotted turtles in Ontario prefer newly flooded areas and congregate in beaver ponds in the springtime where courting pairs are observed. (Yagi…
