A new statewide beaver management plan is in the works in Colorado, with a focus on keeping more beavers on the landscape and expanding tools to help people coexist with the animals often dubbed “nature’s engineers.” The Upper Colorado Watershed Environmental Team shared in a recent social media post that it hopes to eventually establish a beaver quarantine and relocation facility in Grand County. The facility would allow wildlife managers to safely move beavers away from conflict areas, such as roadways or golf courses, and reintroduce them into more suitable habitats. One of the key coexistence tools highlighted in beaver management is the “beaver deceiver,” a flow device designed to prevent flooding without removing the animals.

Other beaver restoration news:

• Watershed Sentinel: Blog: The beaver’s gifts — dams and wetlands​