Opinion: Beavers are our partners in protecting and restoring California
If you’re like us, you’re inspired by the natural world and eager to see California’s beautiful mountains, forests, and lakes protected for future generations. You also might be surprised to hear that the health and survival of these places depends on one species more than most: beavers. Put simply, beavers are our partners in protecting and restoring California. Beavers are known as a “keystone species,” meaning they create, modify, and maintain critical ecosystems for insects, birds, mammals, fish, plants, and trees.
-Written by Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman, Co-Directors of the Watershed Advocacy, Training, Education, & Research (WATER) Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.