Protecting individual trees from beaver chewing is a cheap, long-lasting, nonlethal, and effective coexistence strategy when done correctly. Avoid these common mistakes so you don't duplicate effort or waste money on the wrong materials: Inappropriate fencing material- Beavers can chew…
Sometimes people discover chewed or felled trees, realize there are beavers living on their land, and assume there is a problem when there may not be. Just because you have beavers on your property doesn't mean there is a conflict!…
12/21/2021 Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund (HBCF) partnered with the Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) for an educational and productive volunteer afternoon to protect priority trees at Cool Spring Preserve from being felled by beavers. HBCF founder and former PVAS AmeriCorps volunteer,…
https://youtu.be/nx0ii20qfAY This presentation by Mike Callahan, president of the Beaver Institute, offers a quick overview of the four basic types of flow devices and how they work.
The changes beavers make to a landscape stick around long after the animals themselves have moved on. This can make it tricky for land owners and managers to determine if they have beavers active on the property or not. Here…
Beaver news out of the Mid-Atlantic region hasn't always promoted coexistence, but that is changing! Check out the following recent articles from around the region: West Virginia Enlists Beavers To Help DucksNatural methods used to improve wetlands. Long-awaited renovations to…
A flow device is built through a culvert or beaver dam to maintain an appropriate water level in the pond while allowing beavers to continue living at the site. They are also known as pond levelers and beaver deceivers. Taking…
Coexisting with beavers provides many benefits for humans, native plants and wildlife, and the landscape, including: Stream repair restorationErosion reductionIncreased biodiversity Creation of habitat for wetland species, including some whose conservation status is under threatBeaver ponds recharge aquifers and stabilize…
Beavers don't eat fish. Beavers are strictly herbivores, but they don’t eat only trees either! As ‘choosy generalists,’ their diet consists of many species (80+) of woody, herbaceous, and aquatic plants. Many people blame author C. S. Lewis for the…
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This post is a summary of portions of a Q&A panel that occurred after a film screening of Beaver Believers in Washington, VA on January 10, 2020. Responses are paraphrased from memory unless in quotation marks. Q: How are beavers…