Beaver-based Restoration
Marys River Watershed Council has long maintained a focus on beaver habitat as we’ve designed and implemented our restoration projects, as well as a focus on beavers in our education and outreach programming. Beginning in 2011, they included beaver forage and dam construction shrub and tree species in their riparian planting mix, both to support existing beaver populations and to improve habitat conditions that support beaver colonization. In 2021, they installed three beaver dam analogs (BDA) in Devitt Creek as part of a larger project which included fish passage improvements and large wood placements the first such installations in our watershed.
