Presenters come from various locations around the world -- bringing diverse subjects and experiences related to beaver management and ecological restoration.
SPEAKERS |
PRESENTATION TOPICS AND DETAILS |
DAY ONE |
TUESDAY, JUNE 14TH |
Hilary Harp Falk President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
Emily Fairfax, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management, California State University Channel Islands |
Beaver-created refugia from megafires |
Chris Jordan, Ph.D. Mathematical Biology and Systems Monitoring Program Manager, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA |
Beaver Are the National Climate Action Plan – For Fish, Water, and Wildfire |
Scott Mcgill CEO, Ecotone |
Castor Controlled the Chesapeake |
Bob Boucher President, Superior Bio Conservancy; President and Owner, Still Meadows LLC |
Hydrological Impact of Beaver Restoration in the Milwaukee River Watershed in Wisconsin |
Skip Lisle, M.Sc. Owner, Beaver Deceivers |
Furthering the Cause: Fish, Flow Devices, and Freedom |
SESSION A John Egan Chief of Field Operations, Beaver Solutions SESSION B Joe Berg Senior Restoration Ecologist, Biohabitats Doug Streaker Water Resource Engineer, Biohabitats Laura Kelm Project Manager, Greenvest LLC |
SESSION A Using Flow Devices to Manage Beaver Flooding SESSION B Beaver facilitated conversion of a baseflow stream channel restoration to a 0-stage channel |
SESSION A Jesse Sikora M.Sc. Student, Northern Illinois University SESSION B Mike Thompson Restoration Design Coordinator, Meadville Land Service, Inc. |
SESSION A Is water storage potential of a restored grassland influenced by beaver dam structure and density? SESSION B Construction Benefits of Beaver Dam Analog Stream Restoration |
SESSION A Reese Mercer Program Director, Beaver Works Oregon SESSION B Erik Michelson Deputy Director, Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration, Anne Arundel County Maryland |
SESSION A Examination of the Effectiveness of Beaver Relocation SESSION B Can we use tools to model the water quality benefits of beaver to create incentives for landowners and local governments to embrace their return? |
SESSION A Alicia Leow-Dyke Welsh Beaver Project Officer, North Wales Wildlife Trust SESSION B Aaron Hall Senior Aquatic Biologist, Defenders of Wildlife Mae Lacey Conservation GIS Analyst, Defenders of Wildlife |
SESSION A Beavers in Wales: Can one family make all the difference? SESSION B iBeaver: A community science app for Beaver |
SESSION A Britt van Zelst M.Sc. student, Wageningen University SESSION B Eric Zhu Software Engineer, Google Nicholas Clinton Developer Advocate, Google |
SESSION A Beavers in the Netherlands: Lessons Learned and to be Learned SESSION B Project EEAGER: Using Machine Learning and Earth Engine to Map Changes in Beaver Habitat at Scale |
SESSION A Kerri O'Shaughnessy Riparian Specialist, Cows and Fish SESSION B Alexa Whipple Project Director, Methow Beaver Project |
SESSION A Putting Beavers to Work for Watershed Resiliency and Restoration in Alberta: Collaboration, Community Engagement and Co-existence SESSION B Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: Beaver Dams & Fish Passage |
SESSION A Melanie Arsenault M.Sc. Student, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue SESSION B Elyssa Kerr Executive Director, Beavers Northwest |
SESSION A There’s no place like home: Rebuilding the dynamics of lodge occupation of the North SESSION B Beavers and People and Fish, Oh My: Exploring Flow Device Innovation |
DAY TWO |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15TH |
SESSION A Chris Becraft Partner, Underwood & Associates SESSION B Barbara Jones, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Brookdale Community College |
SESSION A Regenerative Stream Conveyance: Climate Resilient Beaver Dam Analogs SESSION B Invented Borders: How Persistent Wildlife Narratives Challenge True Coexistence |
SESSION A Jakob Shockey Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Beaver Coalition SESSION B Alison Zak Founder & Director, Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund |
SESSION A A Proposed Strategic Framework for Engaging with Beaver-based Restoration SESSION B Time for Beaver School: Designing and Evaluating Youth Education Programs about Beavers and their Ecosystems |
SESSION A Rob Walton Acting Ombudsman, State of Alaska SESSION B Lilly Wilson Senior, Borah High School (Boise, ID) |
SESSION A Landowners, Beaver, and Salmon on the Oregon Coast SESSION B Youth Engagement in Keystone Conservation: the Impacts of Youth on Beavers and Salmon |
SESSION A Bryan Hummel Life Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SESSION B Shawn Behling Wildlife Biologist, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife |
SESSION A How Humans can use the Brilliance of the Beaver Across a Variety of Land Uses to Meet Multiple Objectives 10:15 - 10:45 am SESSION B Washington DFW Beaver Relocation Permit Pilot Program |
SESSION A Holly Kinas Conservation Analyst, Miistakis Institute SESSION B Chelsea Boaler Marine Ecosystems & Fisheries Specialist, WWF-Canada |
SESSION A Addressing Social and Regulatory Barriers to Coexistence SESSION B Pond Levelers Supporting Atlantic Salmon Populations as a Deterrent to Beaver Dam Removal |
SESSION A Sarah Koenigsberg Director, Tensegrity Productions SESSION B Molly Alves Wildlife Biologist, Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Department |
SESSION A Beyond Believing in the Beaving: Intentional Communication for Climate Adaptation SESSION B Partnering with Beavers Through Relocation to Restore and Create Salmon Habitat Within Tulalip Tribes Ancestral Lands |
Jennifer Vanderhoof Senior Ecologist, King County Washington |
Restoration Guide: The Planning for Beavers Manual |
Elissa Chott Beaver Conflict Resolution Field Technician, Clark Fork Coalition |
The Beaver Conflict Resolution Project |
Mike Callahan President, Beaver Institute |
Developing a National Beaver BioBank Program |
Eileen Shader River Restoration Director, American Rivers |
A National Plan to Protect and Restore Floodplains |
Brenda Zollitsch, Ph.D. Senior Policy Analyst, Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM) |
A National Dialogue on Beaver-related Restoration: Project Findings and Resources |
DAY THREE |
THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH |
Lelia Philip Author |
The canon: Two Centuries of American Thinking and Writing on the Beaver |
Izzie Tween Beaver Recovery Project Officer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust |
Beavers’ Place in the British Isles: Assessing the Feasibility of a Eurasian Beaver Release onto the Isle of Wight |
Emily Jones Senior Research Technician, University of Louisville |
Emerging aquatic insects from a restored headwater valley colonized by beaver |
Frank Nelson Wetland Ecologist, Missouri Department of Conservation |
Relationships Between Beavers, Karst Fens, and the Legacy of Relict Species in Missouri |
Alison Zak Founder & Director, Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund |
Understanding Human-Beaver Interactions within the Larger Context of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence |
Christian Sorflaten |
A review of a novel water-tight beaver dam analog (WTBDA) to restore eroded seasonal creeks to permanent beaver wetlands |
Mike Callahan President, Beaver Institute Scott Mcgill CEO, Ecotone |
Closing Comments |