Thank you! Please keep us updated about your ranch and the area with other ranchers.

I met a researcher in Olympic national park catch-and-release fishing to survey the fish population in the river. I asked him why no one has re-introduced beavers back into the rivers in Washington if it is known to help the salmon population. He basically explained that the timber industry won't let them... insanity no one even mentions beaver when discussion Washington salmon runs.

Cherish your attitude, see where the possibilities are in using beaver to offset drought. Apart from the excitement of actually seeing/knowing beavers on your property, there could be a real win-win. Thank you for showing how you work it out.

The beavers are a keystone species just like wolves.

Congratulations on your success

That woman has good farming hands

So simple, yet so complex. Amazing

Fish biologist have been studying and managing the rivers and streams for many years. Look at their tract record. Get a D. I would like to take just one stream. Get together with my buddy's and relatives. Manage the stream. Show these no it alls. We've already repaired and did fish enhancement on streams. Had great success. There's other and better alternatives to beaver infestation. One of the creeks we enhanced, had a beaver dam that we didn't know about on the lower part of the creek. We wondered why salmon, Coho, weren't coming up to spawn. I walked way down the creek. A dam was so high, the fish were blocked from their spawning area. It took a considerable amount of work to bust a hole in the dam, but the fish came up. I counted 29 of them on the border of my property spawning. I have a blind on the stream and I spend many hours watching their behavior. Did it every year for 10 years. I purposely bought the property to do fish enhancement. Before that, no salmon spawned.

Great video. Thank you. Here in Britain we live in one of the most nature-deprived places in the world - I guess that's what industrialising early and then cramming 65 million people into a place that comfortably fits into Michigan does. We are slowly introducing beavers into closely managed enclosures on nature reserves, but in Scotland truly wild beavers do exist (likely an illegal release some years ago) and they are thriving. But many farmers are vocally opposed to their spread. Its good to see farmers in the US carefully weighing up the pros and cons of having beavers on their land, but I wonder how many farmers consider how the financial support wider society provides makes their business possible. In the UK us townies subsidise rural services (from postal services to health care) and then give the farmers money just for existing. All of this is OK, but what sometimes rankles is the oft heard cry: 'this is our land, our business so stop interfering'. Subsidies are changing in the UK to get farmers to be more environment-friendly but many are resistant. Its hard sometimes to see wealthy landowners being given - literally - millions of pounds in tax payer subsidy when young people in towns and cities are denied youth services.

Well, the salmon STOP at our Beaver dam... so WTH is this fool talking about?

Stop China from taking every fish from the ocean otherwise everything else is pointless.

This is the kind of work I want to be doing with my life.

Just leave it alone! That’s how you restore Mother Nature. She will slowly rebuild everything we have torn down and within a couple of hundred years things will be as they should.

If farmers could only understand the benefits of beaver backing up and putting that excess fall/winter/spring runoff into the floodplains for summer irrigation I think they'd be far more keen to allow them to work away. The positive effects for irrigators would vastly outweigh the "negative" impacts as they see it. Luckily farmers and ranchers are coming around. I hope they become the biggest advocates for beaver restoration in the headlands. That would really be a positive change

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My name is Rich Bloom I’m from SD.&NE. My brother and I have reading and talking about this for a couple of years. I was wandering we have 16ft crest liner boat with a 40hp on it is that a big enough bait for fishing out there.

1000 Dollars per day for pumping water ???? Mankind is doomed.....how stupid is that, amazing !

Damn fine work Betsy. Whoop whoop

Put a line of posts in several feet from the culvert.... the beavers will oblige and make the dam in the new location... you can get creative and lay some long pipe parallel with the river flow down between the pipes and the beaver will make the dam on the pipes... but that's optional.... do the post thing if you don't want em jamming up the culvert

As as a retired Alaska Commercial fisherman, I'm extremely interested in the cycle of Anadromous fish & Restoration. How do the smolts & adult fish navigate over/through the beaver dams ? .... What have you observed and witnessed ? ... Thank you.

Awesome, Beaver believer, ✨☀️👍✨.

Thank you Betsy and Michael! You are heroes leading the way to hope for this planet.

Thank you

This is a good video.

Does or can this apply for the Rouge River basin?

Steve’s on the money !

Lower gradient higher biomass of fish. Also lower gradient allows young fish to persist in the reach.

Beavers bring water. Water is life. (Love that you see them as partners!)

Americans - kill the Native peoples, wipe out the wildlife, log the forest, pump the fossil ground water dry, and then realize "Oh sh_t!, the land ain't no go no more, the creeks are dry, and the fish are gone." Maybe if we give a little ground to wildlife we can keep eating hamburgers.

Thank you for a wonderful video. The video was very informative, interesting, and also educational.

wonderful!!!

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If you have a 2 pole endorsement thats fine right?

Just the kind of knowledgeable, concerned rancher the world needs more of.

How did they/you do in past years' drought and 2023 wet winter?

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I live in Canada and the beaver is our national animal. It is a hard working smart engineering machine that is free.

Great vid😊

Great video 😊

Surprising. It looks like the lights are repelling the fish. I would of thought fish would be attracted to the lights

Thank you very much for allowing the beavers to do their innate job of recharging the watersheds.

Very powerful and educational.

Very correct It takes work living w the beav But worth it ☮️🇺🇸

One beaver( Castor canadensis) is great, but it can take two to raise a family. Witnessing a bank lodge beaver in Yankton, SD. I personally gleaned year- long exposure to a family, who I witnessed feed, nurse, and on occasions witness the pair together as busy as a family can be. Feeding on Fremont cottonwoods while simultaneously nursing her kits sounding like babies naturally. I saw her come in nervously with limb, she seemed good with me, submerged, mysteriously entered lodge and heard the action. Not only did they always capture my attention, I learned to fish from nearby woody structure, Spring bringing them into spawn. All aspects of their lifestyles seemed keenly suited for this family life, where local shores, deciduous sprout shooting trees are aided in some forms of propagation by the beavers also. Wood ducks ( Aix sponsa ) had a local cavity nest in an accompanying cottonwood stand and another local resident. Finding cavities can be a test for this Native bird. Beavers in this area store woody forage materials under the ice for winter, they stimulate shoot formation, and all this woody debris is sustenance for the myriad of Mayflies hatching, cottonwood silk, and all those tangible memories. Point being, caves, alcoves, large stumps, can be used as strata for living arrangements of Beaver family including a beaver lodge or bank style which could be a cave, underlying roots of large trees, or other bank habitat that allows for escape cover, deeper water column for escape and survival purposes.

Great video, it really highlights how beavers and salmon are linked. Its that way for a lot of animals. Everyone needs water to live, even humans.

Yes, we’ve been around 40,000 years while beaver and salmon have had 33 million years to figure things out, yor on the right track !,

Wow can you run for mayor or governor or something so we can get some more wetlands???? I'd vote for you

Only 5 seconds into this video and I'm already like YEEEEHAWWWW yeaahhh let's get INTO it!!! I LOVE beaver!!! 🌳🌳🦫🌳🦫

'Big Wood' is also very important to salmon health. Read King Salmon by David R Montgomery.

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