1 hr 25 min
03 - It’s Complex: The Big Picture of Beaver Restoration with Alexa Whipple I'll Be Dammed
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- Science
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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509-289-2770
Methowbeaverproject@methowsalmon.org
Methow Beaver Project: https://methowbeaverproject.org/
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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.
We want your feedback!
509-289-2770
Methowbeaverproject@methowsalmon.org
Methow Beaver Project: https://methowbeaverproject.org/
Please consider writing us a review.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/methow-beaver-project/message
1 hr 25 min