VOLUNTEER IN THE FIELD
Crooked River Watershed this Spring 2024
There are a few ways to volunteer in the field around habitat restoration this Spring, join Western Beavers and the Crooked River Watershed Council for these projects:
- Willow Cutting in Clarno, March 11th
- BDA, planting and fence maintenance in Post, May 16th
- Planting and fence maintenance in Prineville, May 18th
- Stream Surveying between April/May/June and then again in Fall 2024
Learn more at CRWC.INFO/VOLUNTEER
LEAD AN IMPACT AREA
Looking for ways to make a long term impact on natural beaver recovery in ways that use your talents, experience and passion for beavers? Join our small, core volunteer crew to contribute your energies part-time in one of our 5 “impact areas”.
Email us to learn more at info@westernbeavers.org.
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.