BeaverCON 2022
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In March 2020, the Beaver Institute and Ecotone, Inc. co-hosted the first international beaver conference near Baltimore, MD. It was a huge success. Now our second international Conference, BeaverCON 2022, will again be held near Baltimore, MD on June 14-16, 2022 (revised dates). The conference theme is “Building Climate Resilience: A Nature-Based Approach”
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| MAIN AGENDA | ||||
| Tuesday, June 14 | ||||
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7:00 AM to
8:00 AM
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Check-in/Breakfast
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8:00 AM to
8:15 AM
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Welcome (Scott McGill & Mike Callahan)
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8:15 AM to
9:00 AM
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Keynote Speaker - Hilary Harp Falk
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9:00 AM to
9:30 AM
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Dr. Emily Fairfax -Beaver-Created Refugia from Megafires
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9:30 AM to
10:00 AM
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Dr. Chris Jordan - Beaver Are the National Climate Action Plan
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10:00 AM to
10:15 AM
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Break
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10:15 AM to
10:45 AM
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Scott McGill - Castor Controlled the Chesapeake
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10:45 AM to
11:15 AM
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Bob Boucher - Hydrological Impact of Beaver Restoration in the Milwaukee River Watershed in Wisconsin
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11:15 AM to
11:45 AM
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Skip Lisle - Furthering the Cause: Fish, Flow Devices, and Freedom
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11:45 AM to
12:45 PM
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Lunch
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12:45 PM to
1:15 PM
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Joe Berg, Doug Streaker, Laura Kelm - Beaver Facilitated Conversion of a Baseflow Stream Channel Restoration to a 0-Stage Channel
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12:45 PM to
1:15 PM
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John Egan - Using Flow Devices to Manage Beaver Flooding
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1:15 PM to
1:45 PM
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Jesse Sikora - Is Water Storage Potential of a Restored Grassland Influenced by Beaver Dam Structure and Density?
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1:15 PM to
1:45 PM
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Mike Thompson - Construction Benefits of Beaver Dam Analog Stream Restoration
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1:45 PM to
2:15 PM
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Christian Sorflaten - A Review of a Novel Water-Tight Beaver Dam Analog (WTBDA) to Restore Eroded Seasonal Creeks to Permanent Beaver Wetlands
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1:45 PM to
2:15 PM
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Erik Michelson - Can We Use Tools to Model the Water Quality Benefits of Beaver to Create Incentives for Landowners and Local Governments to Embrace T
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2:15 PM to
2:30 PM
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Break
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2:30 PM to
3:00 PM
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Aaron Hall, Mae Lacey - iBeaver: A Community Science App for Beaver
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2:30 PM to
3:00 PM
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Alicia Leow-Dyke - Beavers in Wales: Can One Family Make All the Difference?
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3:00 PM to
3:30 PM
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Britt van Zelst - Beavers in the Netherlands: Lessons Learned and to be Learned
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3:00 PM to
3:30 PM
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Eric Zhu, Nicholas Clinton, Eddie Corwin, Google - Project EEAGER: Using Machine Learning and Earth Engine to Map Beaver Habitat at Scale
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3:30 PM to
3:45 PM
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Break
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3:45 PM to
4:15 PM
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Alexa Whipple - Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: Beaver Dams & Fish Passage
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3:45 PM to
4:15 PM
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Kerri O'Shaughnessy - Putting Beavers to Work for Watershed Resiliency and Restoration in Alberta: Collaboration, Community Engagement and Co-existenc
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4:15 PM to
4:45 PM
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Elyssa Kerr - Beavers and People and Fish, Oh My: Exploring Flow Device Innovation
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5:00 PM to
7:00 PM
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Social Hour
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| Wednesday, June 15 | ||||
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7:00 AM to
8:00 AM
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Check-in/Breakfast
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8:00 AM to
8:15 AM
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Welcome
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8:15 AM to
9:00 AM
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Barbara Jones - Invented Borders: How Persistent Wildlife Narratives Challenge True Coexistence
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8:15 AM to
9:00 AM
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Ellie Chetelat - Regenerative Stream Conveyance: Climate Resilient Beaver Dam Analogs
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9:00 AM to
9:30 AM
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Alison Zak - Time for Beaver School
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9:00 AM to
9:30 AM
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Jakob Shockey - A Proposed Strategic Framework for Engaging with Beaver-based Restoration
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9:30 AM to
10:00 AM
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Lilly Wilson & Elizabeth Anne Duke-Moe - Youth Engagement in Keystone Conservation: the Impacts of Youth on Beavers and Salmon
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9:30 AM to
10:00 AM
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Sarah Koenigsberg - Beyond Believing in the Beaving: Intentional Communication for Climate Adaptation
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10:00 AM to
10:15 AM
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Break
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10:15 AM to
10:45 AM
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Bryan Hummel - How Humans Can Use the Brilliance of the Beaver Across a Variety of Land Uses to Meet Multiple Objectives
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10:15 AM to
10:45 AM
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Shawn Behling - Washington DFW Beaver Relocation Permit Pilot Program
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10:45 AM to
11:15 AM
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Chelsea Boaler - Pond Levelers Supporting Atlantic Salmon Populations as a Deterrent to Beaver Dam Removal
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10:45 AM to
11:15 AM
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Kerri O'Shaughnessy on behalf of Holly Kinas - Addressing Social and Regulatory Barriers to Coexistence
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11:15 AM to
11:45 AM
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Chris Jordan - Designing for beaver-inspired low-tech processed-based stream restoration – willing and unwilling partners
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11:15 AM to
11:45 AM
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Molly Alves - Partnering with Beavers Through Relocation to Restore and Create Salmon Habitat Within Tulalip Tribes Ancestral Lands
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11:45 AM to
12:45 PM
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Lunch
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12:45 PM to
1:15 PM
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Jennifer Vanderhoof - Planning for Beavers, and the four stages of beaver acceptance
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1:15 PM to
1:45 PM
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Elissa Chott - The Beaver Conflict Resolution Project
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1:45 PM to
2:15 PM
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Mike Callahan - Developing a National Beaver BioBank Program
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2:15 PM to
2:30 PM
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Break
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2:30 PM to
3:00 PM
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Eileen Shader - A National Action Plan to Protect and Restore Floodplains
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3:00 PM to
3:30 PM
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Brenda Zollitsch - A National Dialogue on Beaver-related Restoration: Project Findings and Resources
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3:30 PM to
3:45 PM
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Break
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3:45 PM to
4:15 PM
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Formation of a National Beaver Working Group: Panel Session
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4:15 PM to
4:45 PM
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National Beaver Working Group: Open Discussion
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4:45 PM to
5:45 PM
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Water’s Way: Thinking Like A Watershed” a film by Tom Horton
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5:45 PM to
6:45 PM
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Social Hour/Meet the Presenters
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| Thursday, June 16 | ||||
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7:00 AM to
8:00 AM
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Check-in/Breakfast
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8:00 AM to
8:15 AM
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Welcome
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8:15 AM to
8:45 AM
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Leila Philip - Two Centuries of American thinking and writing on the Beaver in North America Ecological Amnesia
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8:45 AM to
9:15 AM
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Izzie Tween - Beavers’ Place in the British Isles: Assessing the Feasibility of a Eurasian Beaver Release onto the Isle of Wight
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9:15 AM to
9:45 AM
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Emily Jones - Emerging Aquatic Insects from a Restored Headwater Valley Colonized by Beaver
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9:45 AM to
10:00 AM
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Break
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10:00 AM to
10:30 AM
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Andrew Cassilly, Maryland Governor's Office - Facilitating Environmental Legislation that Drives Ecological Outcomes
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10:30 AM to
11:00 AM
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Frank Nelson - Relationships Between Beavers, Karst Fens, and the Legacy of Relict Species in Missouri
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11:00 AM to
11:30 AM
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Alison Zak - Understanding Human-Beaver Interactions within the Larger Context of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence (HWCC)
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11:30 AM to
11:45 AM
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Closing Comments + Raffle & Photoshoot with Castor - Mike Callahan, Scott McGill
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