March 23rd, 2024 10am – 3pm, SLO Mission Plaza, 939 Chorro Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. If you’d like to volunteer with us for this event, please sign up here! The SLO Beaver Brigade invites eager beavers of all ages to the Second Annual San Luis Obispo County Beaver Festival on Saturday, March 23rd […]
CDFW Beaver Restoration Program needs our help
(From the CDFW Beaver Webpage ) The CDFW Beaver Restoration Program is updating the current range map of beavers in California. To help improve this dataset and our understanding of the current range of beavers in California, the BRP is requesting submissions of additional beaver observation data. Beavers were once one of the most widely […]
2023 Year In Review
In looking back on 2023, all of us here at the SLO Beaver Brigade are stunned by all that has happened this year. It seems like ages ago when we were celebrating our First Annual Beaver Festival. And then, remember the sold out Fundraiser at Castoro Cellars? And beginning this year with the floods that […]
State of the Beaver Conference 2023
It was quite a highlight for Cooper Lienhart and myself, Audrey Taub, to get to attend and present at the State of the Beaver Conference in Canyonville, Oregon this Nov 13-16, 2023. We were able to hear from the founders of this conference, Stan Petrowski, Leonard & Lois Houston and feel their passion for their […]
UK Students visit Beaver Dams in Atascadero
Visit by 19 high school students from Yarm School in northeastern England to the Atascadero beaver dams, October 24, 2023. photos by Brittany App At first, hesitantly dipping their toes in the Salinas River, but ultimately getting their sea legs while witnessing the delights of Beaver habitat, a group of 19 high school students from Yarm […]
Wildlife Crossings and Beavers
We recently hosted Ben Goldfarb in San Luis Obispo for a talk on his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Ben’s previous book, Eager: The Surprising and Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, accelerated the beaver movement on this continent and we were very excited to […]