In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss - you name it, and beaver is on it.

In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature.

For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/beaver-believers-how-to-restore-planet-water/

Resources

Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale

Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change

Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme

The WATER Institute’s Beaver in California reader

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast.