29
Mar
BWW Leaders Given Lifetime Award
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Owen Brown, President of Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife (BWW), and Sharon Brown, wildlife biologist at the educational nonprofit, were given the “BeaverCON 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award” at a March 3-5 conference in Baltimore, MD. Mike Callahan, President of the Beaver Institute, gave them the award, and remarked, “For me, this is personal. The Browns were... Read More
25
Feb
BeaverCON 2020, March 3-5
BeaverCON 2020 is the first major beaver conference www.BeaverCON.org on the East coast in decades! If you can’t attend this three-day event in Maryland, Malcolm Kenton, BWW’s Social Media Coordinator, will be live blogging photos and more at Facebook.com/BeaversWW/posts.
19
Jan
Surging Requests!
Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife responded to a surge in requests in 2019 by doing more consults and outreach than ever. This included giving beaver programs for the Great Swamp Conservancy, Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC), Sacandaga Garden Club, a Rochester, NY climbing venue, Shawangunk Nature Preserve, and the Boquet River Association, among others (Photo shows... Read More
14
Dec
New BWW Website
Brad Lewthwaite, Senior Art Director at Trainor and Website Developer Zubair Aziz stand before BWW’s new Home Page (BeaversWW.org). We are grateful to them and to Trainor Associates for their fine pro bono work in updating our educational nonprofit’s website.
30
Jun
BWW Consulted at Hewitt Lake
BWW consulted at Hewitt Lake in the Adirondacks in June. It was a perfect, sunny day for a canoe tour. Both the residents and their superintendent want environmentally sound, cost-effective—and lasting methods to coexist with the local beavers. The photo below shows Owen during an earlier visit with some of the lake’s residents.
30
May
Naturalist Jeff Tome Wins BWW Membership
Naturalist Jeff Tome has won a BWW membership for planning a successful April Living with Beavers workshop at the Audubon Community Nature Center in Jamestown, NY. BWW also consulted about a beaver flow device at the center’s Big Pond to manage the water level.https://www.facebook.com/BeaversWW/photos/a.146503698869821/1280448685475311/?type=3&theater
08
May
Wetland Engineer
Castor canadensis, the American Beaver, a Wetland Ecosystem Engineer By Thomas J. Slabe Wetlands throughout most of North America are highly correlated with the American beaver (Castor canadensis), which before European settlement numbered between 60 – 400 million (Seton, 1929). Today beavers number at around 6 – 12 million (Naiman et al., 1988). Butler and... Read More
15
Mar
Beaver Wetlands
By Sharon T. Brown and Suzanne Fouty Effects Upon Wildlife and WaterA half-mile-long beaver dam in Canada made international news recently when satellite photos clearly showed the impact of Castor canadensis upon the earth. The beaver is one of the few species, besides humans, that build structures, such as the huge dam in Canada’s Wood... Read More
15
Mar
Beavers Open Savings Accounts
Wetlands, especially Peatlands, Store Carbon Best If you canoe or kayak often, you’ve probably paddled by boggy areas with carnivorous pitcher plants — and signs of beaver nearby. Beaver dams on streams adjacent to boggy peatlands can help keep them water-logged, and safeguard the enormous amount of carbon stored there. Wetlands, and especially peatlands, are... Read More
08
Dec
Droughts/Floods
Over millennia, glaciers and beaver, in large part, constructed the drainage system of North America. Ruedemann and Schoonmaker (1938), both geomorphologists, advanced this seminal idea based on their studies of streams in the Adirondack Mountains. The two scientists observed that the floodplains were stair-stepped-rather than gradually sloped along the stream. Realizing that this pattern would... Read More