When I saw the pictures of the Pleistocene fauna (circa 3 million years ago) in the Willamette Valley for this YT presentation, it made me think about the images of fauna on display at the various John Day Fossil Beds locations and the Central Oregon fauna from 40 million years ago during the Eocene. This contrast of fauna roaming the now Oregon terrain during the different geological periods is interesting.

Very cool stuff to learn! Thanks for sharing! And thanks for planting willows in the riparian zone at our place. We see beaver activity from time to time.

😵 60+ wildfires continue in Alberta

I would genuinely love to see smokey the bear rebrand as smokey the beaver. It would make the goals much more obvious and achievable. I was briefly involved in a minnesota lake association (think HOA with a preponderance of fishermen) and it was very depressing how much obsession was spent on ~anything~ that might negatively affect the amount of ~artificially stocked~ fish in the lake. Beavers were pretty high on that list, against all logic and reason. Oh and all this is right near a town that famously survived at least one >200K acre fire around the 1900s -- because it was and still is surrounded by beaver marshes. Stay awesome!

Don’t tree huggers like you believe in evolution.. volcanos spew more emissions than man can ever make

this was great research. I hope more places bring back beavers to manage or create wetlands across North America. In future mega droughts and warming trends, I fear the Northeastern US were I live will see these horrific fires. The residents here have no clue about fire threat, thinking the overgrown forests here are "natural" but they're not.

Great presentation. Your work deserves to reach a much wider audience!

Thank you so much for posting this. At the last second I had to miss the Zoom last night, and I was bummed about it.