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Photo courtesy of Stacy Passmore.

COEXISTENCE RESOURCES

The following articles and website will help familiarize you with how landowners and beaver experts are working together to facilitate human and beaver coexistence. Please contact us if you have any questions about the information and strategies that are shared here.

Coexistence in practice on Alderspring Ranch
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For Alderspring Ranch, the return of beavers had helped to create more wet meadows, retain water during dry season, create more fish habitat, and produce more grass for Elzinga’s cattle to graze on. “I just wish I had more,” he said.

The Humbolt Ranch Story

Today, willows and other plants are becoming re-established, old gullies are starting to heal, beaver are returning, water tables are rising and better habitat conditions are being created for a multitude of wildlife ranging from insects to trout and from birds to pronghorn antelope. In essence, this vast landscape is becoming a “lifescape”.

Landscape with beavers in the American West
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To keep the dams from getting out of hand and flooding his fields, he installed a pond leveling system known as the “beaver deceiver.” Invented by wildlife conservationist Skip Lisle, it involves a caged pipe placed upstream of the beaver dam, so that water rising above a certain level flows into the pipe to be released downstream.

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