Event: Inviting Beavers Back Into the Sierra Watershed

Join us and our fiscal sponsor Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch on May 16th at 630 PM to hear from Calaveras-raised Dr. Kramer. She will share some insights and case examples from her research and experiences about how the presence of beaver activity can impact landscapes and water availability on long and short time scales.  After her presentation, we’ll be showing a documentary film Beaver Believers, followed by an opportunity for discussion. See below for more about Dr. Kramer.

Bio:

Dr. Natalie Kramer grew up in Vallecito and graduated from Bret Hart High School in 2003. After leaving home she obtained a degree in Geology from Humboldt State, and Masters and Doctorate from Colorado State University in fluvial geomorphology, aka river science. While at CSU she studied how beaver damming influenced sedimentation of high elevation valleys in the Rocky Mountains and the importance of the natural flux and deposition of instream wood in from the mountains to the sea in northern Canada. She continued on and worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Joe Wheaton at Utah State, who runs one of the most active consulting businesses in implementing beaver dam analogs or BDAs for restoring watersheds. She now resides in Washington State with her husband and two kids.