Last month an environmental engineer from Phillips 66 contacted me, right before I was set to leave for the Colorado trip. She explained that there was a beaver dam flooding an access road to one of their facilities in Rodeo, California and asked about installing a pond leveler. Later that day we toured the site, and […]
I just got back from attending the 32nd annual SRF conference in Santa Barbara, and I’m pretty saturated with data and new ideas. As you’d expect this year, most of the news was bad—drought, low flows, regulatory gridlock, no money, and etc. For me, the only positive response to bad news is to do or […]
Installing a non-lethal beaver management device in Sonoma, California with OAEC’s WATER Institute. All photos in this post are courtesy of Jim Coleman, OAEC
Working on an SPCA grant, Mike Callahan of Beaver Solutions and I installed a non-lethal beaver management device the day before I returned to California.
In October of 2013, Mike Callahan of Beaver Solutions trained me to install beaver management devices. Here’s some of how it looked: