Beaver Restoration / Relocation Project Manager - Trout Unlimited
The Wenatchee-Entiat Beaver Project was established in 2018 to provide technical assistance, education, and support to the communities of Washington’s Chelan and Douglas counties to help resolve human-beaver conflicts through coexistence and relocation. In addition to partnering with numerous federal, state, local, NGO, and private groups, we “partner” with beavers to harness their restorative potential by relocating them to vital streams so that they can enhance aquatic habitat and adjacent floodplain while providing habitat for a host of fish, wildlife, and plant species, including threatened and endangered salmonids. Learning from beavers, the project applies beaver-mimicking restoration to degraded streams through low-tech process-based restoration, or LTPBR. We install structures such as beaver dam analogs and post-assisted log structures to kickstart natural processes to allow streams to heal themselves. We have become a leader in installing low-tech process-based restoration projects throughout these same geographies.
In addition to the Beaver Project’s stream restoration and beaver relocation/coexistence efforts, we provide outreach, education, and volunteer opportunities for the local community, research opportunities for graduate students, and engage with LTPBR practitioners and the Washington Beaver Working Group statewide coalition. The beaver/dam analog habitat project manager joins a team of 17 TU staffers in Washington state including seven in Eastern Washington.