I just watched a video about how salmon leap over beaver dams and spawn in beaver ponds. The narrator ended by saying that "beavers taught salmon how to jump".
If farmers could only understand the benefits of beaver backing up and putting that excess fall/winter/spring runoff into the floodplains for summer irrigation I think they'd be far more keen to allow them to work away. The positive effects for irrigators would vastly outweigh the "negative" impacts as they see it. Luckily farmers and ranchers are coming around. I hope they become the biggest advocates for beaver restoration in the headlands. That would really be a positive change
Well no, as the areas with salmon do not need the water... and this guys is full of Shit, we have a beaver dam and the salmon every fall STOP below the beaver dam. They spawn in gravel... not beaver ponds. Maybe beaver ponds provide the salmon young with more food can be the claim, but otherwise this is pure BS.
Thank you for this short but very informative video in explaining how important the Beaver Dams are for salmon and other wildlife which use the ponds behind their dams.
Always wondered how salmon got past big beaver dams, I have watched them go over a small one. Al ways seems odd to me some areas have a shortage of beavers because my area has so many. If you want a beaver pond just starts a stick dam for them and they will usually come along and finish it.
Salmon are better at traversing beaver dams than invasive non-native fish! They find ways up and around beaver dams where many other fish cannot. This allows juvenile salmon populations to live in protection through the winter
What a great video, I was wondering how those two species interact and did not know this. I suppose a beaver dam is no obstacel to a salmon like a man-made (huge) dam.
I met a researcher in Olympic national park catch-and-release fishing to survey the fish population in the river. I asked him why no one has re-introduced beavers back into the rivers in Washington if it is known to help the salmon population. He basically explained that the timber industry won't let them... insanity no one even mentions beaver when discussion Washington salmon runs.
Thanks for not turning off comments. I wonder if there are different beaver like similarly there are different spawning species and habitats. I wonder too, if/how those corrugated metal tubes impact our subject ?
Fish biologist have been studying and managing the rivers and streams for many years. Look at their tract record. Get a D. I would like to take just one stream. Get together with my buddy's and relatives. Manage the stream. Show these no it alls. We've already repaired and did fish enhancement on streams. Had great success. There's other and better alternatives to beaver infestation. One of the creeks we enhanced, had a beaver dam that we didn't know about on the lower part of the creek. We wondered why salmon, Coho, weren't coming up to spawn. I walked way down the creek. A dam was so high, the fish were blocked from their spawning area. It took a considerable amount of work to bust a hole in the dam, but the fish came up. I counted 29 of them on the border of my property spawning. I have a blind on the stream and I spend many hours watching their behavior. Did it every year for 10 years. I purposely bought the property to do fish enhancement. Before that, no salmon spawned.
Just leave it alone! That’s how you restore Mother Nature. She will slowly rebuild everything we have torn down and within a couple of hundred years things will be as they should.
I live in New York and in my experience beaver dams in Lake Ontario Tributaries slow the flow of water so much that sportfish like steelhead and brown trout cant make it up. Salmon are much stronger than them and climb farther
The same way it does over the rapids. It jumps. They have been doing that for millions of years. Salmon and Beavers have live together for longer than humans have been on earth. Beavers over 33 millions years old, human, being generous, 2 million years.
It's sequential, above the dam a slow flowing pool, below it a silt free run-off. Salmon spawn in the run-off & then the fry drop down to the pool to grow. Salmon & beavers have evolved together in the same streams for thousands of generations, so given the chance they thrive together.
Awesome video and as expected less than 200 views. if he only would have got a brainless half naked girls in the background shaking her behind, the video would have gone viral.
