KarunaNews Story

Last February volunteers delivered a family of beavers to a creek in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southern Oregon. Project Beaver has been working with Bureau of Land Management biologists, nonprofits, private landowners, and dozens of volunteers to bring beavers back. In 2022 volunteers began building “beaver dam analogs” at Vesper Meadow and strategic locations in the monument. Last year the Oregon legislature passed a bill that reclassified beavers that dwell on private land as “furbearers” and this year the state is considering two new bills that would ban trapping on public land where waterways are deemed “impaired” and create a grant program landowners could use to pay for nonlethal controls.