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Protecting Those Who Protect the Water 
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Welcome to SaveTheBeavers

SaveTheBeavers is an independent, Colorado-based, research-driven effort that shows why Beaver matters, reframes North America’s story from “nuisance” to kin and keystone, and equips communities with practical tools to choose coexistence over lethal control.

WHAT DO BEAVERS DO?

Regulate Water Quantity (Storage, Flow, & Replenishment) 

Dams slow and spread water, storing it in ponds and groundwater to sustain baseflow and recharge aquifers.

Restore Watershed Health

Beaver-induced process-based changes (aggradation, floodplain reconnection, vegetation recovery) kickstart self-sustaining riverscapes.

Carbon Storage

Beaver wetlands are significant carbon sinks that contribute substantially to greenhouse gas mitigation.

Increase Biodiversity

Beaver landscapes attract many different species of fish, invertebrates, mammals, birds, & more. 

Expand Habitat

Beaver-created ponds, side channels, and wet meadows expand riparian area and aquatic habitat complexity across the valley floor.

Moderate Extreme Events 

By increasing hydraulic roughness and floodplain connection, beaver complexes blunt flood peaks, hold moisture through droughts, & mitigate floods/ 
 

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BIG NEWS: 
Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW ) is developing a Beaver (Castor canadensis) Conservation and Management Strategy Plan! 
 
GOT A BEAVER 'ISSUE?'

NO PROBLEM!

Sharing space with beavers can feel tricky. This is totally normal.


Whether you’re trying to safeguard shade trees, prevent driveway flooding, keep a road culvert open, or bring life back to a degraded channel, we’ve got you.

 

Explore practical, science-based how-tos and self-help resources designed for all people through my (working) Coexistence Toolkit. 

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NOVA UNITY SNOW ROBBINS-WALDSTEIN

Beaver Coexistence Ecologist: M.S. Student at the University of Colorado Boulder & Founder of SaveTheBeavers

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