Yesterday was very productive! I lined up two beaver friends to help with the website and logo for the beaver summit and our domain name was renewed for another year. So I’m feeling like the world is pretty much my oyster now. You will have to listen to me even longer.

Join our friends at Watershed Guardians in Idaho at the Beaver Dam Jam tomorrow on zoom. Mike Settell says we’re all invited!

Topic: BeaverDamJam-Idaho-Home Edition

Time: Nov 21, 2020 03:50 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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CSUCI study shows beavers can help prevent wildfires

ATASCADERO, Calif.– What if beavers could help fight wildfires? A recent study from a Cal State Channel Islands professor indicates they can.

With much of California dry and brown, many experts say a year-round fire season is the new norm. But firefighters could get some help from an unlikely ally — beavers.

“These beaver ponds, they stay wet, they stay green and they are not burning anywhere as much as the places that don’t have beavers,” said Emily Fairfax, a Professor of Environment Science at CSUCI.

Fairfax just finished a four-year study which found beavers help rejuvenate dry land, creating patches of wilderness that are essentially fire-proof.
We followed her to some beaver ponds in Atascadero to see first-hand.

Oh how lovely to see Emily on the TV talking about beavers! Thank you for making this issue so easy for people to understand and think about differently!

Fairfax observed beaver dams before, during, and after wildfires, and her study found these wet patches don’t burn.

“The more places that we have that are wet the less place we have to burn,” said Fairfax. “If every creek all over California looked like this, fires wouldn’t be able to spread as far as they do.”

Beavers aren’t considered endangered, but their population numbers are low in North America. In California, it’s against the law to relocate them.

Nice. Keep the pressure on CDFW’s outdated policy and force them to explain why they haven’t learned at the same pace as their pacific cousins! Here’s my favorite part:

So the next time you come across a beaver dam, leave it be. These animals are on the clock, hard at work fighting fires.

Excellent work Emily! We are so proud that of all the colleges you could have come to you settled in California! If I remember correctly your husband’s mother lives in Alameda county so maybe that helped tip the scale. Whatever the reason. We need you and are grateful!

The beavers without borders film is available online now. Please Enjoy and share far and wide!

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