Beaver Release to Heal Degraded Western Streams
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- Sageland Collaborative (formerly Wild Utah Project) and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) joined to release beavers on a site where they had previously done stream restoration work.
Learn why beavers are important to Western habitats and stream restoration. UDWR's Robby Edgel and Sageland Collaborative's Rose Smith and Sarah Woodbury talk about this experience and what it means to conservation as a whole.
Would it be possible to do a short follow up video next year to see if the beaver have remained in the area and what effect they've had?
That's a great idea, Eric. We should be able to work that into our plans and will hold a meeting to get started. Thank you for your comment.
@@sagelandcollaborative3561Welcome.
Yes please
Yes please. I see too many videos like this where they say they will achieve great things but then never follow up to tell us how awesome it all worked out!
Agreed - be nice to see if the beavers both survived and also succeeded in restoring the flood plain.
" I don't know how anyone couldn't love someone with orange teeth!" Love it. Such a great video! Thanks for all you're doing!
Thank you so much! We're grateful for all you and your team do in our community as well. Local volunteers and volunteers make our stream restoration work possible!
British Men need love too!
@@sagelandcollaborative3561 I have 1000s of beavers you can have for free.
@@saltydominion9069 find work for them to do. Have you taken their land?
My look after polishing off a bag of Cheetos.
Such a great video and project! Thanks for the work you do and for letting us be a part of it too!
Thank you for your kind words and for joining us in this work!
You have my admiration for helping the beavers Come back, and for your efforts to restore habitat.
You will be glad to hear that here in the UK we have a small number of beaver re introduction projects in place, after beavers have been missing for many hundreds of years.
Best Wishes from the UK.
That's lovely! An entire beaver family was released. Go Beaver Family!💕
True. unrelated beavers can get into fights and those orange teethare dangerous weapons too.
Please keep posting videos on your and the beavers progress!!
I grew up a long, long time ago in the Midwest. I remember dragging my canoe over over quite a few beaver dams. They have quite an "aroma!" 😉 Sadly they were all lost to urban sprawl. Very nice to see you kids doing something about it. Great job!
You even built them a home so they can have a place to live and not just get dumped into an unknown land. Humans and animals working together to restore the environment and maintain it for ages to come. That is wonderful, and it'll be great to see the fruits of our labor.
Beavers dont live in dams
Awesome video love seeing the work y’all doing!
Thank you so much for your support, Maximus!
Our suburban house backs on a river in DE…beaver arrived in the marsh across the river a few years ago. The male has grown to be huge and we often see him cruising down the river. He was also kind enough to take out a neighbor’s problem tree. At first I was worried someone might arm them…there is a lot if anti-beaver sentiment. Happy to report the neighborhood enjoys seeing them. I did have to address one neighbor’s fear of attack beavers, lol.
Not sure if the US Constitution's guarantee of the right to keep and arm bears extends to beavers, but it should.
@@thonbrocket2512 lol…good one!
Any update on the area? Would love to see what the beavers did.
Bravo! The world certainly needs more people like you folks. Thanks for your dedication and tenacity and the very best of luck to you and your critters!
Looks like a nice mountain lion treat! Not enough water there to protect them
I completely agree
I once saw where a mountain lion(we call them cougars) attacked a beaver, and it was a horrific scene, the snow was packed down and stained red for 30 feet in every direction. The beaver lost, but fought hard to the end, they are not an easy target.
Beavers are a key stone species prevent flooding and create habitats for other creatures ,well done.!
I read a scientific journal on beaver and prior reintroduction efforts. The mortality rate was reported at 96% after one year. I'd be interested to know if your efforts to increase those chances has worked. Please keep us posted.
@mike d are you proposing the reintroduction of humans in the environment? Choose those humans carefully
@@henrimatisse7481 Hahaha. And do those humans need to have orange teeth?
You're asking the absolutely correct question. These beaver relocation projects are hard on the beavers and often unsuccessful for restoration outcomes. With this project, I'd be interested to see an update whether these beavers stayed in place and survived. From the looks of things, there's not a lot of food/habitat in this stream for beavers and would be surprised to see a family this large stick around for any amount of time. When beavers are forced to travel in order to find food, this is when they're most vulnerable to predation.
Cant wait to see the progress videos!
Caring for the environment and sharing it
Fabulous.
Thank you.
They are so cute! I hope you guys continue the amazing work you're doing with the help of these cute animals
Love a good beaver story
Unless the video is missing additional details, this release did not seem well planned. The hastily built dam provided no protection. This was evident when the beavers skedaddled out there right away.
A similar release effort involving an Idaho rancher, a professor of watershed sciences from Utah State University, and U.S. Forestry Service staff built 4 BDAs to test the feasibility before releasing beavers. In the words of the Utah State professor, "Structures were built to provide a comfortable release site for beavers...so they won't freak out. We expected them to behave like teenagers and not listen. So wherever you dump 'em, have choices downstream and some choices upstream."
Really looking forward to the follow up video mentioned above.
Coyotes going to get a rare treat.
This looks like a great initiative! Where did these particular beavers come from please? It was quite incredible to see how relaxed they seemed in the cages. My question is will there be any First Nations People involved in this restoration going forward?
Thanks for the informative video!
Please make an update someday so we can see how the landscape has changed.
Just subscribed. Follow up on subject would be great.
Thank you for subscribing! That's a great idea.
@@sagelandcollaborative3561 Yeah, I want to know if the beaver family took root?
I have seen this Program in SW Wyoming on Muddy Creek it failed, I felt sorry for the Beaver.
About time.
I’d love to see an update.
Thankyou
Australia needs Beavers 😁👍
Yeah, let's pack in as many introduced species as we can. That's always worked out well in Australia, right? Right?
Awesome
I'm going to subscribe to your channel just so I can see how they changed the landscape in a year
This is a great project, and as others have said it would be nice to have an update periodically on how the beavers do in the area where they've been released. Thanks for what you do.
Outlawing trapping would also help. I appreciate the good work you do!
Beavers knaw on trees and branches then drag them to build dams in which they build dens. The dams cause flooding in certain locations to make a pond for them to life in and, coincidentally, hundreds of species benefit from this pond as well as the landscape being well protected.
Did you guys follow-up here (at this same site)? Be nice to see if the beavers both survived and also succeeded in restoring the flood plain. Thx
I LOVE BEAVER.
And you people did an extensive coyote trapping program in that area before releasing them ?
Beautiful location, is this Nevada?
I appreciate that the humans want them to work and I hope the humans will follow up on that plan
Seeing this 16 months after the release. Would love an update.
Great work!
Great video and great work! I loved watching the beavers supervising your dam building before they were released. They obviously trusted you, but I imagine Mr. Beaver was thinking...
"Uh, thanks for the dam humans. It's cute. But my wife and I will take it from here. You can go celebrate at TGIFridays or something while we get to work."
Then he and Mrs. Beaver got to work building a REAL dam!
Thank you again for sharing, and I hope we can get an update on this area in a year or so.
Absolutely! We're excited to see what they build and where they go.
any update on these beavers?
Curios to know, what look like the area after the beaver release on the area...
I would like to see an update to this video if at all possible.
"Buildeen" is not a word.
It's been a while since the release. Any updates? Did they all survive the winter? Any young?
Where are the trees ?
Awesome, but I'm sure those beavers are watching the humans and thinking to themselves " that damn build is all wrong" ;)
Haha! Love it.
Just stumbled on this video. Is there an update?
Get in touch with the Massachusetts Fish and Game. Mass. voted on no trapping beavers about 12 years ago. We have some giant beavers. The coyotes need a pack to catch a full grown male.
Beavers are the irrigation experts for life.
How about the Santa Margarita river in North San Diego County?
I love what you are doing here. Beavers are sooooo important!
Amazing info never even considered thank you for educating me 😊😊
Awesome. I can imagine them saying ok we need 4 feet of water at least 😂
These are great programmes, it involves so many people and is an educational initiative that will only promote the well being of this habitat. At the same time I would imagine follow-up research will be done, provided the government has ample funding for these initiatives. Even if the beavers move down stream to the lake sooner or later if they survive they will begin to move back into the streams...It may take 5-10 years to establish a population depending on the success rate of breeding pairs. Many of these restoration programmes are very successful, while very few fail in the long term as sometimes it seems the beavers have disappeared from an area and all of a sudden there's a dam and another dam and a lodge or a bank lodge....What a few beaver can do to restore an area back to its once thriving self is truly amazing. Thanks for the video and hard work....
Wonderful work looking after these little heroes
The three little beavers
subbed so i can see the updates. great stuff. Also, did you guys put any signage up? maybe hunters/trappers will think twice if they’re dealing with research animals.
How do we get updates on the beavers?
Oh boy the beavers have lots of work to do. GOD Bless them and all you good folks❤
So did they survive? Follow up??
I hope the bevers are doing great and help you with the hydrating the landscape
Any update?
I would dig a large hole so the beavers could hide under the water. 6 feet deep should do it. Then add a few trees to hide under. Coyotes probably find beavers very tasty.
I love it when a beaver gets free'd.
Update on the beavers?
Goodluck Beavers
can we have update please
My only hope is that the predators in the area don’t get to them before they can get established.
Do you have poisonous snakes that would be a hazard for them in th riverbank.
They're absolutely adorable but I'm concerned about the lack of an update. They seem extremely vulnerable to prey and it would be heartbreaking if this project failed
One year ago...so? What's the results?
do you keep bringing in new beavers to keep a healthy dna population
Watching them walking away from the prepared dam makes me wonder if it would be better to release them a dozen or so meters away for them to “discover” it on their own.
Update?
Could beavers restore the Great Salt Lake? Colorado River?
I do believe that beaver in the cage in photo is smiling
Here we are a year later?
Here is a follow-up video showing some of the dams that these and other beavers we released into this drainage have built this past year. We then came in and released native Bonneville cutthroat into these ponds. th-cam.com/video/nwLsw1-AS14/w-d-xo.html
THANK YOU!
This doesn't seem to be a follow-up video.
the film was made two years ago what has happened since then?
YaY!! Thanks Sageland Collaborative!!
Related to duck billed platypus?
You should be able to see changes after one month.
How do the coyotes feel about this?
beautiful just beautiful….beavers were here thousands and thousands of years before humans…they have never encroached on us it is we who encroach on them….great to see them in their environment…just beautiful
From watching some of these releases, I’d love to see the release sites at intervals over the next yrs. Has anyone been back o these release sites to gauge their reconstruction efforts? It’s a lovely things to see Nature getting restored and it’s be a boon to your departto come up with a series of videos that show the reconstructed areas from hat they were at release date, to the present day.
Looking forward to seeing some of those good works!
Beautiful 😍
I would love to do this in my area.
I know only one beaver dam in probably a 50-100 mile radius.
I think I would have brought in a mini ex, built the dam ahead of time & planted willows several years in advance to make sure they had an ample supply of food & building materials.
EPA would shit their pants over the Mini Excavator.
Better done by hand.
Beavers are so amazing!
Beavers aka miracle workers
A very different way to release them vs. the way the Brits do in Cornwall.
Sadly, a lot of humans don't see the real problem in wilderness loss. It's the humans that are impacting habitat negatively. The people seem to think that if we can buy the land, we ought to be able to do as we please on the land. It's a human first mentality that views other species as either pests or harvestable resources. How about we look a the world as an important system to preserve in fact to protect from Humans?
I would have released them in deeper water. I don't doubt they just became food for other locals like coyote.
Very cool. I hope it all worked out.
Beavers are awesome. Overall... But, speaking as as someone who lives in an area that's now saturated with beavers, problems eventually arise and tough decisions have to be made. For a typical scenario, say there's a stream reach with historic beaver habitat. About 75% of the stream (by length) is great beaver habitat. No problems, all good. The last 25% contains roads, houses, you see where I'm going. And those people in those houses, they want their homes to be dry, their roads to be safe to drive. That's a reasonable expectation. But when the beavers fill up the 75% of the stream stretch without homes/roads, then they start colonizing the last 25%. And roads and houses start getting flooded. So, the beavers at the roads/houses have to go and they almost always go by trapping. To those reintroducing beavers to historic habitat, good deal and good luck. But when the beavers saturate the area, and they eventually will, problems will arise. Costs to road districts can be particularly high and those higher costs are ultimately passed on to residents. Redesign of road culverts works only sometimes, is more expensive than you might think, and the redesigned culverts rarely have the same floodwater conveyance capacity as before. Beaver relocation isn't really an option in our region as the area is already saturated and nobody will give you permission to release them elsewhere. So, they're usually trapped for their fur and meat. It's the best outcome we can seem to find. As to the issue of beavers storing water, to the benefit of people, beavers saturate soils and store water in smaller streams and reduce flooding downstream. Our region has high rainfall and for us that's pretty much a 100% win. I wonder about the arid western US, where many mountain streams empty into those huge storage reservoirs that supply water to cities and farms. Wetland habitat uses far more water than arid habitat. I wonder if the net result of beaver reintroduction will be more streamside habitat but less water feeding into the large, multi-state reservoirs. Those are the same reservoirs that are steadily dropping now. All that being said, beavers keep recolonizing their historic range at a steady clip. We might be able to speed up their recolonization but failing the reintroduction of uncontrolled trapping we won't keep them out. They're coming back and you just can't help admiring them. Thank you.
The western USA is in the grip of a megadrought I read, regarding 'Those are the same reservoirs that are steadily dropping now.'
Retarding the water flow can allow for ground water re-charge.
Sediment loss will reduce.
Cool effort but it looks like you just put them in a mud hole halfway up a mountain… By the looks of all the green plants you were in the peak of your rainy season. Despot that I didn’t see any running water. How do you expect the beavers to survive in such a place? They can’t even fully submerge themselves in the water. This is honestly sad