CAL Process Based Restoration Network (Cal-PBR)
Beaver observations at iNaturalist
Bring Back the Beaver Campaign, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center WATER Institute
The Historical Range of Beaver in Coastal California
Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT)
Assembly Bill 2196. 2023. Assemblymember Damon Connolly.
Guides
Beaver In California: Creating a Culture of Stewardship, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, 2020
Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes, Utah State University Restoration Consortium, 2019
The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands, and Floodplains, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 2018
Scientific Articles
Aguirre, Ignacio, Glynnis A. Hood, Cherie J. Westbrook. 2024. Short-term dynamics of beaver dam flow states. Science of The Total Environment. Volume 919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170825.
Corline, N.J., P. Vasquez-Housley, E. Yokel, C. Gilmore, B. Stapleton, R. A. Lusardi, 2023. When Humans Work Like Beavers: Riparian Restoration Enhances Invertebrate Gamma Diversity and Habitat Heterogeneity. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13690
*Abstract only. No freely accessible online full-text version.
Spryra, Aneta; Anna Cieplok, and Mariola Krodkiewska. 2023. Beavers ecosystem altering: Influence of beaver dams on aquatic invertebrates in newly created beavers ponds and small mountain river. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2023.06.009.
Jordan, C. E., E. Fairfax, 2022. Beaver: The North American Freshwater Climate Action Plan. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1592
Fairfax, Emily and Andrew Whittle. 2020. Smokey the Beaver: beaver-dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western United States. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2225.
Scamardo, J., and E. Wohl. 2020. Sediment storage and shallow groundwater response to beaver dam analogues in the Colorado Front Range, USA. River Research and Applications, 36 (3): 398–409. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3592.
Yarnell, Sarah, Karen Pope, Evan Wolf, Ryan Burnett, and Kristen Wilson. 2020. A Demonstration of the Carbon Sequestration and Biodiversity Benefits of Beaver and Beaver Dam Analogue Restoration Techniques in Childs Meadow, Tehama County, California. Center for Watershed Sciences. https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8531/files/products/2022-05/UCD-Yarnell%20Childs%20FINAL%20RPT%20Jul%202015-Dec%202019%20w%20Appendices-1.pdf
Campos, Brent, Helen L. Loffland, Ryan D. Burnett. 2019. Relationships between Willow Flycatcher and Beaver-Modified Stream Reaches in Sierra Nevada Montane Meadows. The Nature Conservancy. https://www.birdpop.org/docs/pubs/Campos_et_al_2019_Relationships_Betwee...
Silverman, Nicholas, Brady Allred, John Donnelly, Teresa Chapman, Jeremy Maestas, Joseph Wheaton, Jeff White, David Naugle. 2019. Low-tech riparian and wet meadow restoration increases vegetation productivity and resilience across semiarid rangelands. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12869
Wathen, G., J.E. Allgeier, N. Bouwes, M. Pollock, D.E. Schindler, and C.E. Jordan, 2018. Beaver Activity Increases Habitat Complexity and Spatial Partitioning by Steelhead Trout. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2018-0171. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0171
*Abstract only. No freely accessible online full-text version.
Bouwes, N., N. Weber, C.E. Jordan, W.C. Saunders, I.A. Tattam, C. Volk, J.M. Wheaton, and M.M. Pollock, 2016. Ecosystem Experiment Reveals Benefits of Natural and Simulated Beaver Dams to a Threatened Population of Steelhead (Oncorhynchus Mykiss). Scientific Reports 6:28581. doi: 10.1038/srep28581. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28581.pdf
Parish, M. and J. Garwood, 2015. Distribution of Juvenile Salmonids and Seasonally Available Aquatic Habitats within the Lower Smith River Basin and Estuary, Del Norte County, California. http://smithriveralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Smith-River-Alliance-Smith-River-Estuary-and-Coastal-Plain-Report.pdf
Lanman, C.W., K. Lundquist, H. Perryman, J.E. Asarian, B. Dolman, R.B. Lanman, and M.M. Pollock. 2013. The Historical Range of Beaver (Castor Canadensis) in Coastal California: An Updated Review of the Evidence. California Fish and Game 99:193–221. https://oaec.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Lanman.et-.al-.2013.pdf
Michael Pollock, George R. Pess, Timothy J. Beechie and David R. Montgomery, 2004. The Importance of Beaver Ponds to Coho Salmon Production in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Washington, USA (North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 2004). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/M03-156.1
Presentations at SRF Events