By Methow Beaver Project
The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.
What’s it like to work for the Methow Beaver Project? What do our days and weeks look like? This episode includes a personal interview conversation with each member of the MBP team. We discuss their past professional experience, the story of how they joined the MBP, what their work looks like, and why they are motivated to do beaver restoration work. After chatting with Alexa Whipple, our Director, last week, this episode includes the remaining four MBP employees:
Josiah Shaver - Summer Intern 2021
Willy Dugauy - Outreach & Restoration Field Assistant
Joe Weirich - Restoration Coordinator
Julie Nelson - Education and Outreach Coordinator
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Alexa is the current Director here at the Methow Beaver Project. Listen in as we get down to the heart of our work and why it matters. We discuss the history of beaver trapping in North America, the radical changes to the land and ecology that resulted, how beavers are part of climate change resilience, why this work matters to Alexa personally, and why, in the face of so much environmental doom, beaver restoration offers realistic and much needed hope. Get the inside scoop on our mission, how we are funded as a nonprofit, and what Alexa does on a day-to-day level.
As an ecologist and a farmer, Alexa works for sustainability in all practices and effective solutions to challenging conditions. She has called the Methow Valley home for the last 20 years but has worked across the western US studying songbirds, carnivores, plant communities, agricultural impacts on habitat and wildlife and wildfire impacts on riparian ecosystems. Her family has also commercially raised and sold annual vegetables and perennial fruits as well as provided well water services to the Methow Valley. Alexa completed her MS in Restoration Ecology at Eastern Washington University where she focused on beaver ecology and beaver mediated restoration of wildfire impacts in the Methow River watershed.
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It’s been said that beavers are the only engineers that come in under budget and ahead of schedule.
With all of the work that beavers do on streams, how does this influence wildfires?
That’s exactly the question that we explore in this episode.
Dr. Fairfax has a PhD in Geological and Earth Sciences from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is an Assistant Professor at California State University Channel Islands.
Dr. Fairfax’s stop motion animation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM94B73bzE
Dr. Fairfax’s article:
Fairfax, E., and A. Whittle. 2020. Smokey the Beaver: beaver-dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western USA. Ecological Applications 30(8):e02225. 10.1002/eap. 2225. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.2225
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Welcome to I’ll Be Dammed, a podcast by the Methow Beaver Project! To kick things off, we decided to interview one of the titans of beaver management and coexistence (“coex”) in the United States. Founder of Beaver Solutions LLC and the Beaver Institute Inc. in Massachusetts, Mike has been working with beavers and landowners for over twenty years and has worked on over 2000 beaver conflict scenarios. Listen in as we discuss beaver history in North America, trapping, common misconceptions about beavers, odd things found in beaver dams, and Mike’s personal story about getting involved with these rodents.
Beaver Institute Inc.: https://www.beaverinstitute.org/
Beaver Solutions LLC: https://www.beaversolutions.com/
Beaver Management Forum Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/339105817425
Methow Beaver Project: https://methowbeaverproject.org/
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The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.