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Beavers: Coexisting With the Best Dam Wetland Managers on Our Landscape

On November 23, 2022, AWA was pleased to host a talk over Zoom with Kirby England, faculty member at Lethbridge College and owner of You Betula Environmental Inc. In his talk, Kirby gave an overview of beaver ecology; that is the organism’s interactions with their environment living and non-living, as well as our interactions past, present, and future with this original wetland creator and ecosystem engineer. This presentation focused especially on important and sometimes misunderstood aspects of beaver ecology, including the benefits beavers bring to water quality and quantity, bio-diversity, fire-proofing the landscape, and others. Kirby also covered our human interactions with beavers from pre-contact, through the fur trade era, to beaver conservation then restoration efforts, and now onto the present and future ways in which we will live alongside an animal with the ability to modify their environment second only to our own. Despite all the benefits that beavers provide the environment, there are opportunities for human-wildlife conflicts with a beaver population and the presentation explored ongoing beaver co-existence efforts allowing us to benefit from beavers with overall lower costs; both environmental and economical. Finally, Kirby shared lessons learned through twenty plus years of personal and professional experience in beaver wetlands, along with beaver stories in the best dam presentation on beavers and beaver habitat in Alberta. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Websites mentioned in the talk: * Cows and Fish publication *Beaver Our Watershed Partner*: https://cowsandfish.org/wp-content/up... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Other AWA talks and events: https://albertawilderness.ca/events/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~