Beaver Conservation Translocations: Yét Atwam Creek Watershed

The project will re-establish a breeding population of North American beavers (Castor canadensis) in the Yét Atwam Creek watershed. Multiple family groups and/or individuals will be captured from healthy source populations, quarantined, and released into the multiple, collaborating landowners’ properties over a 3- to 5-year period. All beavers will be uniquely tagged and a portion of the beavers with be fitted with transmitters. The beavers will be monitored for population establishment, and a variety of ecosystem parameters will be monitored over time to evaluate overall success of the project.