| Title | Assessing beaver occupancy and dam building potential: a case study in the Umpqua watershed of Southwestern Oregon |
| Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Petro, Vanessa M., John Stevenson, and Jimmy D. Taylor |
| Secondary Title | Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference |
| Volume | 29th |
| Number | Paper 32 |
| Pagination | 5 p. |
| Publisher | University of California, Agriculture & Natural Resources |
| Conference Location | Santa Barbara, Calif. |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | American beaver = Castor canadensis, Ashur Creek, dams, geographical distribution, habitats, human impacts, South Umpqua River, temporal distribution, West Fork Cow Creek, West Fork Elk Valley |
| Notes | In the fall of 2017, the authors surveyed 144 sites in the West Fork Cow Creek watersed, looking for beaver activity and beaver dams. The authors selected for both sites they considered either suitable or unsuitable for beaver dam construction. “The objective of our study was to improve understanding of beaver populations and their damming activities to better inform stream restoration projects in western Oregon. In this paper, we discuss new methods for defining beaver use by 1) including a temporal component for characterizing beaver activity, and 2) expanding beaver habitat modeling exercises to include non-damming populations” (p.2). Many factors go into determining whether beavers build dams, and this study represents beginning steps in our understanding of this question. |
| URL | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78d474mk |
