Beaver Coexistence Community Outreach Resource

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.

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 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