Turns out the new beaver landscape in California isn’t all that new.
As you can see the vast majority of beaver depredation still happens in Placer County. The region issues more permits and permits good for more beaver than anywhere else in the state.
I am currently slogging through map coordinates to get the same info about cities. All the places where beavers were killed in California. It makes me think of those freeway shrines people put out to show where a fatal accident occurred. If those were installed when beaver are killed they would be everywhere there is water and several places where there isn’t.