Beaver Release to Heal Degraded Western Streams 

Would it be possible to do a short follow up video next year to see if the beaver have remained in the area and what effect they've had?

" I don't know how anyone couldn't love someone with orange teeth!" Love it. Such a great video! Thanks for all you're doing!

That's lovely! An entire beaver family was released. Go Beaver Family!💕

Such a great video and project! Thanks for the work you do and for letting us be a part of it too!

You have my admiration for helping the beavers Come back, and for your efforts to restore habitat. You will be glad to hear that here in the UK we have a small number of beaver re introduction projects in place, after beavers have been missing for many hundreds of years. Best Wishes from the UK.

Any update on the area? Would love to see what the beavers did.

Please keep posting videos on your and the beavers progress!!

Looks like a nice mountain lion treat! Not enough water there to protect them

I grew up a long, long time ago in the Midwest. I remember dragging my canoe over over quite a few beaver dams. They have quite an "aroma!" 😉 Sadly they were all lost to urban sprawl. Very nice to see you kids doing something about it. Great job!

I read a scientific journal on beaver and prior reintroduction efforts. The mortality rate was reported at 96% after one year. I'd be interested to know if your efforts to increase those chances has worked. Please keep us posted.

Awesome video love seeing the work y’all doing!

Our suburban house backs on a river in DE…beaver arrived in the marsh across the river a few years ago. The male has grown to be huge and we often see him cruising down the river. He was also kind enough to take out a neighbor’s problem tree. At first I was worried someone might arm them…there is a lot if anti-beaver sentiment. Happy to report the neighborhood enjoys seeing them. I did have to address one neighbor’s fear of attack beavers, lol.

Seeing this 16 months after the release. Would love an update.

Bravo! The world certainly needs more people like you folks. Thanks for your dedication and tenacity and the very best of luck to you and your critters!

Beavers are a key stone species prevent flooding and create habitats for other creatures ,well done.!

Just subscribed. Follow up on subject would be great.

Caring for the environment and sharing it

You even built them a home so they can have a place to live and not just get dumped into an unknown land. Humans and animals working together to restore the environment and maintain it for ages to come. That is wonderful, and it'll be great to see the fruits of our labor.

Please make an update someday so we can see how the landscape has changed.

Where are the trees ?

I’d love to see an update.

Unless the video is missing additional details, this release did not seem well planned. The hastily built dam provided no protection. This was evident when the beavers skedaddled out there right away. A similar release effort involving an Idaho rancher, a professor of watershed sciences from Utah State University, and U.S. Forestry Service staff built 4 BDAs to test the feasibility before releasing beavers. In the words of the Utah State professor, "Structures were built to provide a comfortable release site for beavers...so they won't freak out. We expected them to behave like teenagers and not listen. So wherever you dump 'em, have choices downstream and some choices upstream."

I have seen this Program in SW Wyoming on Muddy Creek it failed, I felt sorry for the Beaver.

Cant wait to see the progress videos!

Coyotes going to get a rare treat.

Curios to know, what look like the area after the beaver release on the area...

Fabulous. Thank you.

Love a good beaver story

Did you guys follow-up here (at this same site)? Be nice to see if the beavers both survived and also succeeded in restoring the flood plain. Thx

And you people did an extensive coyote trapping program in that area before releasing them ?

any update on these beavers?

Australia needs Beavers 😁👍

Really looking forward to the follow up video mentioned above.

I would like to see an update to this video if at all possible.

Beautiful location, is this Nevada?

This looks like a great initiative! Where did these particular beavers come from please? It was quite incredible to see how relaxed they seemed in the cages. My question is will there be any First Nations People involved in this restoration going forward? Thanks for the informative video!

Thankyou

Outlawing trapping would also help. I appreciate the good work you do!

About time.

Just stumbled on this video. Is there an update?

Beavers knaw on trees and branches then drag them to build dams in which they build dens. The dams cause flooding in certain locations to make a pond for them to life in and, coincidentally, hundreds of species benefit from this pond as well as the landscape being well protected.

Great work!

I'm going to subscribe to your channel just so I can see how they changed the landscape in a year

I appreciate that the humans want them to work and I hope the humans will follow up on that plan

Awesome

Awesome. I can imagine them saying ok we need 4 feet of water at least 😂

How about the Santa Margarita river in North San Diego County?

They are so cute! I hope you guys continue the amazing work you're doing with the help of these cute animals

"Buildeen" is not a word.

Get in touch with the Massachusetts Fish and Game. Mass. voted on no trapping beavers about 12 years ago. We have some giant beavers. The coyotes need a pack to catch a full grown male.

It's been a while since the release. Any updates? Did they all survive the winter? Any young?

How do we get updates on the beavers?

One year ago...so? What's the results?

I LOVE BEAVER.

Update on the beavers?

Any update?

So did they survive? Follow up??

Watching them walking away from the prepared dam makes me wonder if it would be better to release them a dozen or so meters away for them to “discover” it on their own.

Here we are a year later?

can we have update please

My only hope is that the predators in the area don’t get to them before they can get established.

Could beavers restore the Great Salt Lake? Colorado River?

The three little beavers

This is a great project, and as others have said it would be nice to have an update periodically on how the beavers do in the area where they've been released. Thanks for what you do.

How do the coyotes feel about this?

Do you have poisonous snakes that would be a hazard for them in th riverbank.

I would dig a large hole so the beavers could hide under the water. 6 feet deep should do it. Then add a few trees to hide under. Coyotes probably find beavers very tasty.

Great video and great work! I loved watching the beavers supervising your dam building before they were released. They obviously trusted you, but I imagine Mr. Beaver was thinking... "Uh, thanks for the dam humans. It's cute. But my wife and I will take it from here. You can go celebrate at TGIFridays or something while we get to work." Then he and Mrs. Beaver got to work building a REAL dam! Thank you again for sharing, and I hope we can get an update on this area in a year or so.

I love it when a beaver gets free'd.

Beavers are the irrigation experts for life.

Update?

the film was made two years ago what has happened since then?

I do believe that beaver in the cage in photo is smiling

do you keep bringing in new beavers to keep a healthy dna population

Awesome, but I'm sure those beavers are watching the humans and thinking to themselves " that damn build is all wrong" ;)

Here is a follow-up video showing some of the dams that these and other beavers we released into this drainage have built this past year. We then came in and released native Bonneville cutthroat into these ponds. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nwLsw1-AS14.html

They're absolutely adorable but I'm concerned about the lack of an update. They seem extremely vulnerable to prey and it would be heartbreaking if this project failed

Related to duck billed platypus?

You should be able to see changes after one month.

Wonderful work looking after these little heroes

Goodluck Beavers

I hope the bevers are doing great and help you with the hydrating the landscape

Oh boy the beavers have lots of work to do. GOD Bless them and all you good folks❤

I love what you are doing here. Beavers are sooooo important!

Amazing info never even considered thank you for educating me 😊😊

YaY!! Thanks Sageland Collaborative!!

subbed so i can see the updates. great stuff. Also, did you guys put any signage up? maybe hunters/trappers will think twice if they’re dealing with research animals.

I would love to do this in my area. I know only one beaver dam in probably a 50-100 mile radius. I think I would have brought in a mini ex, built the dam ahead of time & planted willows several years in advance to make sure they had an ample supply of food & building materials.

A very different way to release them vs. the way the Brits do in Cornwall.

Beavers aka miracle workers

These are great programmes, it involves so many people and is an educational initiative that will only promote the well being of this habitat. At the same time I would imagine follow-up research will be done, provided the government has ample funding for these initiatives. Even if the beavers move down stream to the lake sooner or later if they survive they will begin to move back into the streams...It may take 5-10 years to establish a population depending on the success rate of breeding pairs. Many of these restoration programmes are very successful, while very few fail in the long term as sometimes it seems the beavers have disappeared from an area and all of a sudden there's a dam and another dam and a lodge or a bank lodge....What a few beaver can do to restore an area back to its once thriving self is truly amazing. Thanks for the video and hard work....

I would have released them in deeper water. I don't doubt they just became food for other locals like coyote.

beautiful just beautiful….beavers were here thousands and thousands of years before humans…they have never encroached on us it is we who encroach on them….great to see them in their environment…just beautiful

Beavers are so amazing!

Very cool. I hope it all worked out.

Sadly, a lot of humans don't see the real problem in wilderness loss. It's the humans that are impacting habitat negatively. The people seem to think that if we can buy the land, we ought to be able to do as we please on the land. It's a human first mentality that views other species as either pests or harvestable resources. How about we look a the world as an important system to preserve in fact to protect from Humans?

Beautiful 😍

From what I see, the beavers will be unlikely to settle in such an ill prepared sight. Hope I'm mistaken.

From watching some of these releases, I’d love to see the release sites at intervals over the next yrs. Has anyone been back o these release sites to gauge their reconstruction efforts? It’s a lovely things to see Nature getting restored and it’s be a boon to your departto come up with a series of videos that show the reconstructed areas from hat they were at release date, to the present day. Looking forward to seeing some of those good works!

these beaver would be trapped and gone in the millions of acres of Yellowstone ecosystem within the first year. a few hunters and trappers pretty much determine what lives here. wolves, bear, and beavers are particular obsession.