To my delight I just came across this site yesterday, its the work of one Nova Robbins-Waldstein. She’s from the same place where they make Emily Fairfaxes and that should give you a clue:
Nova is a 2nd-year M.S. Student in ENVS & Hydrologic Sciences at CU Boulder. Since 2021, she has dedicated her personal & academic life to beaver coexistence work in Colorado, from studying the hydrogeomorphological effects of beaver ponds within acid-mine drainage systems to completing the state’s first audit of beaver policy and management (Honors Thesis: “The Ecological Importance of Castor canadensis: Changing the Legal Narrative in Colorado”). Now, she uses her research to study how policy, culture, and land-use decisions shape when North American beavers (Castor canadensis) are managed as “nuisance” or welcomed as neighbors, and what that means for groundwater, wetlands, and resilient riverscapes (yes, the dam-builders really can help rivers heal when we let them!). Her ultimate goal is to bring the Beavers back home and allow them to help heal our rivers.Research Interests
Nova also explores related topics such as habitat fragmentation, riverscape connectivity, and the dynamics of human-wildlife relationships, with a centering emphasis on coexistence and the ecology of fear. She is also very interested in grounding her work in Relational Accountability and always bringing stakeholders into the process.
It’s so exciting to see all the new and flowering beaver support out there. Hard to imagine that when I was trying to save our beavers in Martinez there were three sites on the entire internet about coexistence.
I’m such an old timer.
