Here’s something to be grateful for. I meant to write about this months ago but it sat in my “potential posts” folder for so long because there was a glut of beaver good news. Now we can finally get caught up to this important news.
Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund
The Human Beaver Coexistence Fund (HBCF) will educate the public about the benefits of coexisting with beavers and provide resources and financial support to address human-beaver conflict using nonlethal management strategies.
We will accomplish this mission by establishing a cost-share incentive program to help landowners and managers pay for beaver coexistence projects of two types: tree protection and flow device installation.
We currently serve Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia, with plans to expand our reach throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
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One month into 2020’s shelter in place order, Virginia Holsworth and her family decided to change things up by walking in the opposite direction of their usual daily stroll through suburban Fairfield. That’s when she first encountered the amassment of sticks blocking the path’s adjacent creek, Laurel Creek.For the next few months she watched cormorants and blue herons among the cattails and tules. Supposedly the creek even contained so many rainbow trout, a member of the community — illegally — caught 40 of them. The way the beavers and their dam had changed the landscape and reinvigorated the habitat enthralled Holsworth, and she became devoted to preserving them in her community. 
Communities across California, as well as many Western states, are searching for ways to fire harden urban interface zones and buffer areas. One emerging concept — that seems new but is actually rooted in millions of years of habitat and wildlife evolution — is that encouraging the North American beaver to return or to be reintroduced to historic habitat areas may have a positive impact in terms of fire resistance. 
Beavers Build Ecosystems of Resilience
