Noninvasive Camera Monitoring For Education & Coexistence Success
A member of the BeaverCorps since 2020
I offer resources to help you know the beavers (and if possible, the 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 January 2024, it's a thriving place for fry in a few locations below the large beaver dam. 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. Nature is doing her best work here despite this creek being in a ditch rather a floodplain, drought and inundated with stormwater pollutants. Yes, this is the very creek that 6-PPD-Q was first 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 Kit with remote training and support.
Let's learn together: What are you noticing? What questions arise living by YOUR local beavers?
Photographs by Pamela Adams, except the coho salmon fry is by Tom Reese on Jan. 5 2024.
Check out the new trailer for a documentary in the works by Kay D. Ray. We are seeking some TAX DEDUCTIBLE funding to finish this film. Please email me: pamela@beaverinsights.com for more info. THANKS!
I believe in Planet B, as in Beaver.
Drought conditions: Beaver dams holding water for 39% other species .
Polluted urban watersheds: Beaver dams are natural bio-filters holding stormwater pollutants.
Hot water: Fish like cool, clean water and beaver dams help with moderating temperature.
Beaver dams add biodiversity benefits in just 3-5 years.
BeaverInsights was founded after joining the Beaver Corps / Beaver Institute in 2020. I work with project partners to consult, design and install coexistence devices such beaver pond levelers, culvert fences, protective tree wrapping or painting within the PNW region.
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.
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.
City Beaver Kits Available
We have camera locations learning about beavers in Bend, OR, The Elwha River, WA, Chimacum Creek, WA, Dunawi Creek, Corvallis, OR, Longfellow Creek, WA, VT and NH. It's easy to get started and remote training available.
Check out the ASMR "BeaverCalm" of unedited trail camera footage in a remote section of LFC with the whole beaver family eating and grooming. Watch this before bed for a restful happy sleep.
Longfellow Creek, Seattle, WA
Longfellow Creek, Seattle, WA
*This is a long video of a full night of the wildlife doing their living. Highlight of beaver and raccoon at 7:50.
The last weeks rain event brought a lot of water rushing down the creek, but not one of the 12 dams I watch were breached. From trail cameras observations, no beavers are really working on dams, even though there are holes in them, and the water level in the creek is dowThe downstream flow of debris seems to be auto damming. The family did not come out of the lodge much for the rain event days but now the rains have stopped the adult beavers are doing a lot of lodge building. More than usual.
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? FB Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/638459631548760/
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! More at the FB Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/312641881612675
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.
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 Dunawi 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. For More info. check out the FB Group page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/312641881612675
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
Don't Panic: Call Animal Control (206) 386-7387. OR our local wildlife rescue tech Wonder Woman: Kersti Muul (360)317-4646; Or myself, Pamela (415)887-8242.
LINKS TO PAWS.org , Animal Control/Animal Shelter
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