POST, OREGON BUILDING BEAVER DAM ANALOGUES (BDA'S)
October 21 and October 27, 2023
Help establish BeaverHOODs this Fall 2023 by joining a volunteer crew with the Crooked River Watershed Council.
Two hundred years ago beavers numbered in the thousands in this watershed, when 1823-1841 Hudson Bay Company and British trappers moved through to create a Fur Desert - a dead zone that would discourage Americans from settling into the Oregon Territories. Help beaver recovery by expanding beaver habitat, creating the conditions that beavers need to succeed.
BDA crew work will include: harvesting and transporting willow sticks, weaving willow sticks into posts in the stream, hauling buckets of organic fill behind the new structures.
These completed BDA structures will help to reengage the floodplain, improve vegetation diversity and support beaver food establishment.
