Agenda
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Speakers and Abstracts
Our presenters came from various locations around the world and brought diverse subjects and experiences in regards to beaver management and ecological restoration.

SPEAKERS	Presentation Abstract
Dr. Alan Puttock University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom	Quantifying the Hydrological Impacts of Eurasian Beaver Reintroduction across Great Britain
Alexa Whipple and Kent Woodruff The Methow Beaver Project Washington, United States	The Methow Beaver Project – Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going in 2 Acts
Bob Boucher Milwaukee RiverKeeper Wisconsin, United States	Creating the "Superior Bio-Conservancy" and modeling beaver restoration benefits
Chris Jordan NOAA/NMFS/Northwest Fisheries Science Center c/o US EPA Oregon, United States Carol Volk South Fork Research Inc. Washington, United States Joe Wheaton Utah State University Utah, United States Nick Bouwes Eco Logical Research Inc. Utah, United States	Temperature and hydrological impacts of beaver-based stream restoration: hypotheses, models and data and the way forward with low tech process based restoration.
Duncan Halley Norwegian Institute Research Trondheim, Norway ​​Gerhard Schwab, M.Sc. Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V. (BN) Mariaposching, Germany	History of Beavers in Europe
Glynnis A. Hood University of Alberta Alberta, Canada	Plumbing for ecology: Can flow devices on beaver ponds reduce conflicts and costs?
Heidi Perryman Worth A Dam – Martinez Beavers California, United States	A Space for Beavers
Leonard Houston South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership - ​Beaver Advocacy Committee Oregon, United States	When the Beaver Calls Your Name: Managing Beaver in the Umpqua Basin
Rob Walton The Beaver Coalition Oregon, United States	Beavers, Salmon, and the Beaver State
Roger Auster University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom	Unraveling Perceptions of Eurasian Beaver Reintroduction ​in Great Britain
Skip Lisle, M.S. Beaver Deceivers International Vermont, United States	The History of the Beaver Deceiver™
Alicia Leow-Dyke Wildlife Trusts Wales Powys, United Kingdom	The Story of Beavers in Wales
Frances Backhouse Author British Columbia, Canada	37 Million Years and Counting: A Brief History of Beavers
Grace Brush Johns Hopkins University Maryland, United States	A LAND TRANSFORMED: FROM BEAVERS TO DITCHES
Stanley Petrowski South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership Oregon, United States	The Case of the Missing Beaver
John Egan Beaver Solutions, LLC Massachusetts, United States	Managing Beaver Flooding Problems with Flow Devices
Derek Gow	TBD
Mike Callahan Beaver Institute Massachusetts, United States	New Beaver Management Tools You Can Use
Toogee Sielsch Sherry Guzzi Sierra Wildlife Coalition ​California, United States	The Sierra Wildlife Coalition: Sand Painting Trees to Create a Cleaner Lake Tahoe
Elizabeth Sudduth Georgia Gwinnett College Georgia, United States	The effects of beaver dams on nutrient transport in urban streams
Kari Gunson Eco-Kare International Ontario, Canada	Integrating road ecology mitigation measures with beaver exclusion techniques at road drainage culverts
Aaron Hall  Defenders of Wildlife Colorado, United States Elissa Chott & Will McDowell Clark Fork Coalition Montana, United States Sarah Bates National Wildlife Federation Montana, United States	Busy beaver: Building a cost-sharing program
Chris Becraft Underwood & Associates Maryland, United States	Cattail Creek Stream Restoration and Living Shoreline
Scott McGill Ecotone, Inc. ​Maryland, United States	Integrating Beaver and Eco-Geomorphology into Ecological Restoration (Abstract link to come)
Chuck Caldwell The Beaver Patrol Alaska, United States	The Juneau Beaver Patrol and Innovative Salmon Passage
Gerhard Schwab, M.Sc. Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V. (BN) Mariaposching, Germany	Beaver management in Germany. How to deal with an eco-engineer in completely used land
Martha Otis University of Miami Florida, United States	Bringing Beavers Home—A New Vision for Civic Engagement in the Age of Habitat Restoration
Nicolaas Bouwes Utah State University, Anabranch Solutions, LLC, and Eco Logical Research, Inc. ​Utah, United States	Beaver-related restoration strategies –documented benefits from restoration evaluations
​Joseph Wheaton Utah State University and Anabranch Solutions, LLC Utah, United States	Low-tech process-based restoration-lessons learned from beaver to address degraded riverscapes
Sarah Koenigsberg	From Castor-Cursing to Beaver-Believing: The Power of Storytelling and Intentional Communication to Inspire Change (Abstract link to come)
Michael Pollock	Abstract to come
Emily Henderson University of North Carolina - Charlotte North Carolina, United States	Do Beaver Impoundments Have Hydrological Impacts to a Developing Piedmont Watershed?
Jakob Shockey The Beaver Coalition Oregon, United States	​Fish Passage: Adapting our Tools for Living with Beaver in Salmon Country
Erik Michelsen Anne Arundel County Watershed Protection and Restoration Program Maryland, United States	How Can Research on the Effects of Beaver Activity Inform Better Stream and Wetland Restoration Design?
Victoria Neville World Wildlife Fund Canada Toronto, Canada	Flow Device Project for Atlantic Salmon Passage in Newfoundland
Speaker TBD	TBD
Maddie Berg Stantec Maryland, United States	In-stream effectiveness of conveyance channels and material processing channels
Robert V Hopper III, PE, PMP CDM Smith North Carolina, United States	The Ecological Engineer for Water Resources Resilience… in Raleigh
Tom Horton	Thinking Like A Beaver – Restoring Chesapeake Bay (Abstract Link to Come)
Adrian Nelson Humane Solutions British Columbia, Canada​	Chum Can't Jump. The trials and turmoil's of creating the Fish Lyft salmon passage.
James Wallace Beaver Trust England and Wales, United Kingdom Sarah Koenigsberg Emily Fairfax	Beavers Without Borders

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