The Return of California's Golden Beaver
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ย. 2015
- This short documentary, "The Return of California's Beavers", was produced, By Greg Kerekez for the Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District, to shine light on Beavers positive impacts to the environment, the miss treatment of beavers in California, and what we can do to Co-exist with Beavers.
Beavers are returning to California streams they haven't inhabited since the Gold Rush. By 1850 Beavers were almost driven to extinction in California. In the early 1900s they were considered Non-native to much of the state because no one could find any, and California's early natural history records were hard to come by after the 1906 quake. Turns out we were on the wrong side of history, with new digitized historical records from Museums and Universities, have helped researchers prove that beavers are native to almost the entire state! They save thousands of Gallons of water, curb erosion, and improve ecosystem diversity, yet nearly 4000 Beavers are killed in the state each year. California needs to do better by its beavers and encourage their inhabitance of historic streams. We can Coexist, follow the links in the credits to learn more.
Dear Beavers, I want to give you guys the highest award in civil engineering, hydrology, environmental sciences and many more. Thank you for your services to all life.
you're welcome
Excellent documentary which should be seen by all land developers, home owners, and everyone who cares about improving our environment. We need the water, the ecosystems, and the cleverness of the keystone species we call the beaver!
And the government bureaucrats in land management should watch this also because they are the stupidest of all. Not these biologists in this film, but the dip shit bureaucrats who have no real knowledge and are pigheaded, so stupid that they believe that California was excluded from beavers I nature or as all the rest of North America was populated. What a bunch of idiots!
Something else for Californians to consider is that beavers naturally increase the water saturation in the land which in turn acts as a natural fire break. Areas with beavers are wetter and have less forest floor debris to burn.
Historic ignorance is the sole excuse for someone that would claim beaver were not native in California. In fact beaver living in California were an undebated fact, taught in California grammar schools through the 1950s. Only the growing numbers of outsiders began to affect that, and the unobservant who never noticed the beaver living in rivers such as the American and Sacramento who have been present since before the Gold Rush and were never "trapped out." Many people still mistakenly think beaver-cut trees were vandalized or being taken as fire wood by homeless. There are many historical records that mention them. Most significantly the John Work party of the Hudson Bay Company came south into California trapping beaver in the early 1830s. Jedediah Smith recorded trapping beaver on the Kings River in 1827. Several other expeditions by American trappers and mountain men also trapped beaver and traded with local tribes for beaver pelts. Literally, only the severely ignorant would claim otherwise. None ever had any actual grounds for the idea.
Thanks for standing up for Native Californian history. The poor little beavers being labeled 'outsiders'?! I shake my head.
California needs more beavers
I fear they are being labelled as "outsiders" as an excuse to slaughter them. 😢
Re educate all people who had since lived in America yet are ignorant of their outsider ancestors as colonizers from other countries who had ever have to extinct beavers without knowledge of what they can do for our wildlife nature's future
Long Live Beavers!!!
everyone loves a good beaver
1,000 year old beaver dam. Kinda' beats our schlocky dams that lasted a few months or years, such as Johnstown, PA; St. Francis, Saugus, California; Viajont, Piave River, Italy; and Teton Dam, Idaho.
Beavers can save the planet. I was in Martinez last week and looked for beavers in the Alhambra Creek, saw none. Our family loves beavers
It's incredible they didn't become extinct
Excellently presented! Thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!
That's absolutely nuts to think the beaver weren't native to the Central Valley!
I've been called this before but had no idea they were actually saying "wow, you are an ecocentric keystone species that supports an entire ecosystem"
Calling her beaver she chew on this wood😂
Terrific video! Thank you!
TY FOR YOUR WORK💪😃👍
The U.S. had commando beavers.
Yes, you read that right...Commando Beavers.
Or maybe Para-Beavers is more accurate. Although they were 'recruited' for a specific mission...were 'deployed' by air drop in small 'teams'...expected to do their work with no supervision...and survive off of the land...sounds like a commando to me. But the reality is that Forrest Service and Fish and Game from (at least) Idaho and California relocated beavers into the back country of different watersheds, sometimes by parachuting them in to the mountains in special crates. Plus, Commando Beavers would be a great name for a band.
Interesting story and GREAT music!
I'm gonna ask my local fire department to look into this. We have this wide creek bed that is never filled, and we recently had a fire, so there's a lot of scorched trees. The beavers could help clear these dead trees and increase water retention in that area.
Great idea!
If they don't want to bring in Beavers, then you can suggest BDA's to them (Beaver Dam Analogs). They do much the same as Beavers, though not quite as well over the long term. But they would, if done right, make that creek year round, and a likely natural fire break. That's the thing forestry forgot. Beavers are good, as they can stop a wildfire in it's tracks, and if every stream, trickle and creek had beavers, raging inferno fires like the ones in Cali recently wouldn't be able to happen, and forest fires would be smaller, more likely to naturally break down and go out, due to Beavers and the work they do. We just have to learn how to live with them, not against them. Lets not also talk about the massive biodiversity explosions Beavers and their dams encourage.
Excellent. Thanks
It is good to see beaver back in the high country. They have been using Comstock swim through live cage traps to catch and relocate beaver in restoration projects in South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah so far.
I wish they let us relocate beaver in California! That has to change!
thank you Rick
thanks again rick
I’ve found a pair in upper Bear Creek on the border of Siskiyou and Shasta Counties also a pair in downtown Fall River Mills if anyone is keeping track.
Sustainable trapping of beaver(Not ADC) prevents a lot of problems that people use to call them "nuisance" animals. Beavers are incredible, and were native to every state, there isn't a state that exist where beavers haven't made their home. Beavers like every other animal need to be managed, and in the situation where we aren't killing a quota every year, we are doing damage to ourselves.
I really enjoy your videos! Thank you!
Yes, I was trying to find a river local to me where I could view nature's engineers in action and found instead an absolute property owner war on these animals in modern times, sad.
Great video.
you sound like you are on the verge of screaming over that hominy loop pardner. Maybe use the music more selectively and ride that volume a bit (try using compression on it so it sounds more back back background
Fabulous
nice music
I beg to differ also, I’ve found a pair in Bear Creek btwn Siskiyou and Shasta Counties, in downtown Fall River Mills and Chico California, if anyone is keeping track,
Beavers arrived in the river our suburban DE home backs in. Their dam is in the marsh but we see the adults…the male is now very large!…cruising around the river. They were kind enough to remove a problem tree from our neighbor’s backyard. We are on the migration route fir many birds and all kinds of wildlife. I continue to hope in vain fir otters, which isn’t realistic, but would be amazing.
Wow good
Beavers store water! Beavers allow the land to hold water longer, by doing this water is allowed to soak into the ground at a higher rate.
Beavers for the win! Go BEAVERS!
Next on the list - Golden grizzly bears.
The Santa Margarita River and Peñaquitos Creek? Both in San Diego County. The Santa Margarita runs through Camp Pendleton and is the only remaining wild river in California.
Sometimes polar bears look golden in the sunrise or sunset or covered in the bloody fat of their whale kills
Neat stuff. They are returning beaver to the high country in Wyoming where they were two centuries ago. Can't see how they will help salmon where the dams keep them from going up river. Salmon can't go over a dam. Nice pleistocene skull by the way.
I think the beavers use the tributaries mainly and this slows down the flow in the main river. That creates a wider stream that meanders and allows the salmon and other species to find breeding areas further up-river. They won't dam very wide flowing rivers., when there are smaller ones to make a home. I gather fish can simply jump over the dams too.
@@SWRural-fk2ub You are correct in that they don't block large rivers. When they do take on a large creek the dams often blow out with spring run off. I guess there is a point where the head waters of a river are small enough to get blocked but I suppose at that point it may not matter.
Quick question what if I let go of some beavers around the Los Angeles area? Would they do fine?
Beavers have certain requirements or they'll simply abandon the area and seek a better place.
You can make a quick dam to create conditions right for the rodents. Drive rods of wood in a row then weave branches back and forth through the rods this will act as a dam alow vegetation to regenerate enough for there to be a stable leafy resource for the beavers while releasing them in a place that is hospitable to them.
This stick thing is called a "beaver dam analog" and they were developed at Utah state university. You can you tube it. There are lots of videos about how to make them. If you build them first, the beavers have a better survival rate and are more likely to stay.
My places may need couples beavers...
They should be paid more then a little willow...
Beavers are trying its best to save wildlife, the environment and humanity. Let it be.
how do salmon get around beaver dams???
They can simply jump over it, the dams aren't very tall in comparison to the water
Some go through it!
did they have to have endless environmental studies before releasing the beavers?
Yes, indeed. I come from CA and people wanted to live too close to the rivers and then hate beavers for doing their thing. You have to fight those rich assholes like mad to get natural ideas through.
I seen a beaver in arroyo seco
Well it won't be 'seco' much longer then will it? 🙂
I saw golden beaver a a gentlemens' club in Vegas
Beavers prevent drought reduce flooding create new habitats for other wildlife filter water ,
I saw one dead out in mendota while fishing today
That's what happens when you don't keep the water clean
@King Nothing it actually looked like it was shot but yeah the water there isn't that great it looked alot worse then previous times I've visited a lot of trash everywhere.
I don’t know about beavers in cities but they should be in nature
Why Beaver need to build dam? Hard working animal.
Beavers build dams in order to retain water, which rises the water's level. This creates a ideal enviroment for beavers as the more deep the pond is, the more they can hide in it and even protect themselves from winters. Winters create thick sheets of ice, so when beavers build the entrance to their lodge (house), they must build it quite deep in the water so the ice can't reach it.
Not facetiously at all… looking forward to grizzly reintroduction in California.
Mimicking beavers is a good idea, too:
www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9xvos0/how_peter_andrews_rejuvenates_droughtstruck_land/
Please stop the music
what if beavers where introduced to east africa.
Now that is smart thinking.
Then they'd be an invasive species there so.... not a good idea
Crocodiles would eat them.
It's always a bad idea to introduce a non-native species. More often than not, they destroy the native eco-system.
@@Michilar true that but the hippos in South America are pretty cute I hear
I prefer the scarlet beaver.
"People" can be 'such' fools and narrow minded... for people to think that 'beavers' were not native to California!
Leave it to Justin Beaver
Disaster
are all you people brainwashed to have background noise not natural just noise bad music noise.
Need beavers to reduce California wildfires damage. They save water🦫🦫🦫🦫
Hahaha a family moved in hehehe