BEAVER COEXISTENCE COMMUNITY OUTREACH RESOUrce
PRIVATE EYE BEAVER INVESTIGATION ONE DAM AT A TIME
I offer Noninvasive Camera Monitoring Resources For Education & Coexistence Success to help you know the beavers (and if possible, the fish!) in your watershed by behind the scenes observation monitoring, and seasonal tracking.
I observe the subtle seasonal changes of beavers to better understand them so we can anticipate how best to adapt, and live with them in all our watersheds - city or country.
It's not what you look at, it is what you see.
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?
A member of the BeaverCorps since 2020.
All photos and footage by Pamela Adams, except where noted by Tom Reese.
WHY ARE BEAVERS AWESOME?
Beavers make riparian systems alive with other species. They dig canals, make bank burrows that help fish find safe places to spawn, and eggs to grow into baby fish, that grow up to swim out to sea as a natural cycle. Their dams are natural biofilters for sediments and toxins. Their benefits for our modern life engineering is a growing science. Beaver ecology has been going on for thousands of years (millions really). We're just catching up after the beaver genocide over 200 years ago.
About the Freelance beaver detective
PAMELA ADAMS
Pamela Adams is a freelance beaver detective. In her past life she majored in Fine Art at San Francisco State University turned former California Certified Risk Manager/Insurance Broker 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 San Francisco Golden Gate National Recreation Area with the Youth Conservation Corps in 1979. 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 noninvasive cameras, she is pioneering community based beaver ecology.
About BeaverInsights
Why Beavers
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
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.
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
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.
Team
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
Triggered by Beavers
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 ).
Triggered by Beavers
Riparian Beaver Coexistence Resources
Triggered by Beavers
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.