Learn about farm efforts to keep waterways clean and our ecosystems healthy for generations to come – from riparian plantings to co-existing with beavers.
Speakers: Brian Muegge, Farm Program Manager, Salmon Safe; Ben Larson, Farmhands Cooperative; Angie Thompson, Environmental Science Graduate Researcher at Oregon State University
Additional Resources
Videos and Podcasts:
- Holly Muraco at Something Wild Wildlife Rescue
- The Beaver Believers Documentary
- Delightful Beaver Podcast from across the pond: The Lodge Cast
Restoration Guidebooks:
- Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual. Utah State University Wheaton Restoration Consortium, Logan, Utah, Pollock, M., Lewallen, G., Woodruff, K., Jordan, C., & Castro, J. (n.d.). The Beaver Restoration Guidebook.
- The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: USFWS https://www.fws.gov/media/beaver-restoration-guidebook
- Practical Guidelines for Wetland Prairie Restoration in the Willamette Valley, Oregon
- Review the historic 1850s Oregon survey maps from your area here (see instructions section on site)
History and Ecology Literature:
- Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley by David G. Lewis
- Eager: The surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter by Ben Goldfarb
- History of Fire and Vegetation of the Willamette Valley with charcoal analysis: Walsh, M. K., Pearl, C. A., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P. J., & Worona, M. A. (2010). An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(9–10), 1093–1106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.011
- Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest, by Robert Boyd