Rodents Restoring Riparian Resilience with Alexa Whipple

In this episode I speak with Alexa Whipple, Project Director at the Methow Beaver Project, a program of the Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation. Visit the Methow Beaver Project online (https://methowbeaverproject.org) and follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Methow-Beaver-Project-221123695055531 Our Creature Feature this week is on pupfish of the genus Cyprinidon. They’re cute. They’re badass. And they’re mostly endangered. Want to submit a creature feature of your own to be aired on the show? Please do! Learn how at: https://fisherwomenpod.wordpress.com/creature-feature/ Get Involved! (listed north to south and west to east) Washington: The Methow Beaver Project https://methowbeaverproject.org Oregon: Beaver Works (Bend) and The Beaver Coalition (Jacksonville) https://beaverworks.org https://www.beavercoalition.org: A hub of beaver resources, sparked by the award-winning 2018 documentary “Beaver Believers” California: Bring Back the Beaver Campaign (Sonoma County), Worth a Dam (Martinez, East Bay Area), the SLO Beaver Brigade (San Luis Obispo) https://oaec.org/category/water/beaver/ https://www.martinezbeavers.org http://www.slobeaverbrigade.com Massachusetts: Beaver Solutions LLC: https://www.beaversolutions.com/ Connecticut: Connecticut Beaver Initiative: https://cwrawildlife.org/ct-beaver-initiative/ Pennsylvania: Beavers Matter: https://www.beaversmatter.org/ North America and Europe: The Beaver Trust, The Beaver Institute and BeaverCon https://beavertrust.org https://www.beaverinstitute.org/ https://www.beavercon.org/ Resources (Open-access listed first; * indicates paywall/ 11 products for sale) The Beaver Restoration Guidebook. Updated June 2017. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e573dd0e2dc52648c2d6577/t/5f10a89a17d20b4ac4dc62c4/1594927290953/BRGv.2.0_6.30.17.pdf Fairfax, Emily and Eric Small. 2018. “Using remote sensing to assess the impact of beaver damming on riparian evapotranspiration in an arid landscape” Ecohydrology. http://geode.colorado.edu/~small/docs/Fairfax_et_al-2018-Ecohydrology.pdf B. Clure and C. Thorne. 2014. “A stream evolution model integrating habitat and ecosystem benefits” River Research and Applications. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/97b5/7edce62571b00897b0ba5c182076772cf92a.pdf Michael M. Pollock, Timothy J. Beechie, Joseph M. Wheaton, Chris E. Jordan, Nick Bouwes, Nicholas Weber, Carol Volk, 2014. “Using Beaver Dams to Restore Incised Stream Ecosystems” BioScience. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/64/4/279/2754168 2020. “Beaver power provides year-long water to Idaho ranch” Beef Magazine. (News) https://www.beefmagazine.com/sustainability/beaver-power-provides-year-long-water-idaho-ranch Michael M. Pollock, George R. Pess, and Timothy J. Beechie. 2004 “The Importance of Beaver Ponds to Coho Salmon Production in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Washington, USA.” North American Journal of Fisheries Management http://duff.ess.washington.edu/grg/publications/pdfs/Pollock.pdf Whipple, Alexa. 2019. “Riparian Resilience in the face of Interacting Disturbances.” (Conference Presentation) https://www.rrnw.org/wp-content/uploads/5.1-RRNW-Alexa-Whipple-2019.pdf *Frances Backhouse. 2015. “Once they were hats: in search of the mighty beaver” (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Once-They-Were-Hats-Search/dp/1770412077 *Ben Goldfarb. 2018. “Eager: the surprising, secret lives of beaver and why they matter” (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Eager-Surprising-Secret-Beavers-Matter/dp/160358739X *The Beaver Believers. 2018. (Film) https://www.thebeaverbelievers.com/ Credits Thank you to Alexa Whipple for the great cover photo of herself for this episode. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. Thank you.