State of the Beaver 2025, Sacred Center of the Universe
November 18, 19 and 20
Seven Feathers Convention Center, Canyonville, Oregon
Day One
Tuesday, November 18
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration table open
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Welcome and logistics Stanley Petrowski
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Cow Creek Tribal Welcome Jesse Jackson
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Opening Speech Leonard Houston
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Restoring Ancestral Ecosystems: Reintroducing Beavers to Historical Habitats within Tribal Lands Harold Santos, Bianca Guillen, Arnold Trippel (Tule River Tribe )
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Process-Based Restoration & Tribal Stewardship in a Coastal Tributary of the Klamath River Sarah Beesley, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department (YTFD)
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Beaver and Process-Based Restoration From Ridge to Reef. Kate Lundquist Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
3:15pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm “Reframing Beaver Relationality within Contemporary North America” Nova Robbins-Waldstein , Beaver Coexistence Ecologist: M.S. Student at the University of Colorado Boulder & Founder of SaveTheBeavers
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Utah State University (USU) Beaver Ecology and Relocation Collaborative (BERC) Natalie D Souza, Nate Norman, Becky Yaeger, Alex Fortin
5:00 pm Announcements and Closing Remarks Stanley Petrowski
No Host Social Hour 6:00 pm
Day Two
Wednesday, November 19
7:00 am – 8:00 am Hosted Breakfast
7:45 am – 8:00 am Morning announcements Stanley Petrowski
8:00 am – 8:45 am Title and presenter TBA
8:45 am – 9:30 am. ODFW Beaver Update for Practitioners Adrienne Averett, Sam Fino, Conrad Ely, Noa Meiri , Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
9:30 am – 10:15 am. Footholds: Trapped In Two Worlds (“One Trappers Journey Through Beaverland and Beyond”) Nick Hagan (Ft. Collins, CO and Livingston, MT)
10:15 am – 11:00 am. Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am A Decade of Flow Devices: Regional Review of Beaver Coexistence Efficacy and Satisfaction Madison Newton, Beavers Northwest, Project Manager, Puget Sound Region, WA, USA
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Stan’s Beaver Bafflers (SBBs) are BMPs that improve fish/wildlife passage and reduce installation costs. Keith Guenther, Glen Guenther, Wildland Solutions—Stephanie Cotton, Ted Parker, Snohomish County Roads
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Implementing Oregon’s House Bill 3932, “A view from the ground “ Ph. D. Suzanne Fouty
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Beavers in the arid Central Coast of California
Audrey Taub, San Luis Obispo Beaver Brigade
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Be the Beaver, Plant the Rain Lion Waxman, Owner/ Principal
Good Earth Gardens, LLC Regenerative Farm & Landscape Consultation | Education | Design | Build
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Lawyers, Guns and Money: Helping Beavers with Sticks and Carrots?
Jakob Shockey, Project Beaver
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Borrowing from the Range: A Threat-Based Approach to Beaver Recolonization at Scale Reese Mercer, Western Beavers Cooperative
5:15 pm Closing remarks and announcements Stanley Petrowski
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm Break
6:00 pm Beaver Banquet and Keynote Presentation
“Beaver Futurism: Remaking boundaries with beavers – restoration as relationship” Ph. D. Jordan Kennedy ( Blackfeet Seneca ) Tribal Partnerships Liaison and Beaver Behaviorist
Day Three
Thursday, November 20
8:00 am – 8:15 am Morning Announcements Stanley Petrowski
8:15 am – 9:00 am Freelance Beaver Detective -Tracking Urban Wildlife
Documentary Screening With Q&A For The State of The Beaver 2025 Pamela Adams
9:00 am – 9:45 am Title TBA
Kevin Swift, Swiftwater Design
9:45 am – 10:30am Hard Drives, Hiccups and Hurdles, Beavers don’t Care ! Leonard Houston, co director Beaver Advocacy Committee
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45am – 11:30 am Wildlife Neighborhood Stephen Malcom Anderson
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Community Science and Coexistence with Beavers in Urban Wetlands. Shea Fuller, Community Engagement Manager for The Wetlands Conservancy .
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Beavers in the City: Exploring Public Perceptions and Opportunities for Coexistence Matthew Guziejka, Department of Geography, Portland State University. M.S. Geography (2025) | Urban Beaver Researcher
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Open Mic Discussion
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm
5:15 pm Conference Adjournment / Closing remarks Stanley Petrowski