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 / Rhonda Richardson
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 Title TBA 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 Methow Beaver Project

8:45 am – 9:30 am. ODFW, title TBA Conrad Ely 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/ Principa
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 Title TBA 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 Title TBA 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

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

5:15 pm Conference Adjournment / Closing remarks Stanley Petrowski