Longfellow Creek adult with kit thinking about going up to forage apples.
Longfellow Creek beaver eating red cedar August 2023.
Longfellow beaver kit waking up to 7pm on a July 2023 evening.
Longfellow Creek adult with kit thinking about going up to forage apples.
Longfellow Creek beaver eating red cedar August 2023.
Longfellow beaver kit waking up to 7pm on a July 2023 evening.
Non-Invasive Camera Monitoring For Education & Coexistence Success
A member of the Beaver Institute since 2020
I offer resources to help you know the beavers (and fish!) in your watershed by behind the scenes
observation monitoring, and seasonal tracking. Private eye beaver investigation one beaver dam at time.
The photo of the wild coho fry is by Tom Reese using a long stick GoPro not to scare the fish. These wild coho fry are almost a year old. They grew up from eggs under a beaver dam in Longfellow Creek, Seattle, WA. It's almost a year for them. New adult coho are also spawning under this place as of Oct. 31 2023. It's a thriving place. If the beavers did not build this dam a few years ago, the low flows due to drought conditions would likely not have contributed to this life. Oh, and this is the very creek that 6-PPD-Q was discovered to be causing pre-spawn mortality (PSM) in over 30% of the coho that have come into the creek to spawn in 2022 and 2023. (Puget SoundKeepers Alliance monitoring estimate-not published as yet.
What happens under a beaver dam, stays under a beaver dam! Until it's a super smolt!
Onsite or remote beaver resource and guide-wherever your watershed.
I have resources and will guide you on trail camera monitoring. Beavers are nocturnal!
Rent, or buy a City Beavers Trail Camera Trunk Kit. $100-$400 for one to three cameras.
Let's learn together: What are you noticing? What questions arise living by YOUR local beavers?
I met beavers on my home river trail cameras in 2019 which started my journey to know them as a keystone species and, as individuals seeking out a living. BeaverInsights was founded after I graduated from the Beaver Institute in 2020 with the goal of serving beavers in their natural riparian habitats with adaptable coexistence solutions
I met beavers on my home river trail cameras in 2019 which started my journey to know them as a keystone species and, as individuals seeking out a living. BeaverInsights was founded after I graduated from the Beaver Institute in 2020 with the goal of serving beavers in their natural riparian habitats with adaptable coexistence solutions for their human neighbors. I am also an available as a collaborative resource to human entities in need of beaver knowledge and support.
I am a semi-aquatic beaver detective. Looking through the lens of the beaver.
In her past life she majored in Fine Art at San Francisco State University yet somehow became a suit as a Certified Risk Manager/Insurance Broker for over twenty years until beavers saved her. A fateful bout of cancer, and a move to the wilds of the PNW she hea
I am a semi-aquatic beaver detective. Looking through the lens of the beaver.
In her past life she majored in Fine Art at San Francisco State University yet somehow became a suit as a Certified Risk Manager/Insurance Broker for over twenty years until beavers saved her. A fateful bout of cancer, and a move to the wilds of the PNW she healed by getting back to her roots of hands-on caring for natural places as she had when leading crews in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area with the Youth Conservation Corps back in the early 1980’s.
During the Covid-pandemic, in the high desert outside Bend, she discovered through the art and science of camera trapping nocturnal animals, that beavers were not extinct but actively re-wilding watersheds all over Oregon and Washington. Learning everything she could about the life history of beavers, and putting her hobbies of wildlife tracking and photography to purposeful use she pioneered regional beaver monitoring programs for conservation groups including Beaver Works Oregon (Deschutes County), Western Beaver Cooperative (Eastern Oregon), and The Coastal Watershed Institute - where she got to follow the The Elwha nearshore beaver family on the 10th year after the dams were removed. There’s a peer-reviewed science paper with her name on it from the project that wets her appetite for more beaver ecology research especially around toxins stored in beaver dams in salmon-spawning watersheds.
My team is made up of experienced beavers and the humans that follow them.
From the mouth of the Elwha River (Coastal Watershed Institute), to high desert Deschutes River (Beaver Works Oregon & Western Beavers Cooperative), Watersheds in WA State (BeaversNorthwest).
Longfellow Creek, Seattle WA (BeaverInsights ).
Would you like to know your local beavers?How many in your local family. Did they have spring kits? Where are they denning? Seasonal water level changes effecting daily patterns? What they are eating? Basically, what they are doing on your property at night while you are sleeping!
They are free, or by donation.
Beaver Trail Camera Trunk
Would you like to know your local beavers?How many in your local family. Did they have spring kits? Where are they denning? Seasonal water level changes effecting daily patterns? What they are eating? Basically, what they are doing on your property at night while you are sleeping!
They are free, or by donation.
Beaver Trail Camera Trunk Kit!
We have camera locations learning about beavers in Bend, OR, The Elwha River, WA, Chimacum Creek, WA, Duwani Creek, Corvallis, OR, Longfellow Creek, WA, VT and NH. It's easy to get started and remote training available.
Salmon trying to get up the local Seattle creeks are meeting obstacles or finding hospitality via beaver dams. Apparently us humans are likely making things more complex (than we've already done by building our urban infrastructure over watery ways-tidal and intertidal). One thing seemed sure, people love their fish. Now, will they find a way to learn to love this water rodent with millions of years of eco-engineering under its tool belt?
NEW VIDEO 11.15.23! The beaver family is living with a pond leveler since late August. New dam making downstream is active and Beaver Insights Corvallis photographer, Debi Murk is on the scene monitoring. Here a beaver and nutria have a face to face. Good to see the beaver is large and in charge!
This is a salmon spawning creek in the city of Seattle. There are four beaver families living in four sections of creek. Yancy Lodge beavers, Golf Course beavers, Graham St. lodge beavers, and the HomeDepot beavers. Three of these families had three kits each May 2023. These beavers are adapting to an urban riparian complex, even swimming under pipes to stay in connection with their creek. There is also water quality issues here. Ground zero for 6-PPD-Q studies and data.
I put this out to test it out for monitoring the times a beaver adds sticks to a dam in one night without motion detection -which is not 100 %. It kinda works! But really hope to catch a beaver and a jumping salmon over and into this pond very soon.
Today was fun!
This past August I worked with Western Beaver Cooperative, and a myriad of organizations to install a pond leveler inside a beaver dam in Duwani Creek. So far all is going great for the humans and the beavers. Debi Murk, a local wildlife photographer is partnering with me on monitoring the beavers and other wildlife via a BeaverInsights City Beavers Trail Cam Kit.
Salmon and beaver dams in drought conditions, one morning's observations on Oct. 2 2023. More to follow as the salmon migration is not in full swing yet here in Seattle, WA.
One Minute Unedited Trail Cam Magic Video #1 Dam Building Magic September 15 2023 Seattle, WA
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