CDFW’s Strategic Beaver Translocation for Building Ecosystem Resilience in CA– Alves & Pagel 2/18/26

Описание: The lecture’s title is “California Department of Fish and Wildlife Beaver Restoration Program: Strategic Beaver Translocation for Building Ecosystem Resilience in California.” The speakers are Molly Alves and R. Kyle Pagel.

This lecture was part of the Sequoia Park Zoo's 2025-2026 Conservation Lecture Series, hosted by the Sequoia Park Zoo Advisory Group's Conservation Council. These lectures are free for our community, and your donations to the Sequoia Park Zoo Conservation Fund make this possible. You can donate at www.RedwoodZoo.org/donate

Talk synopsis:
Molly Alves and Kyle Pagel introduce the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Beaver Restoration Program (BRP). In this talk, they share how it all started, what has been accomplished to date, and what exciting things are on the horizon. They discuss why the BRP was initiated, how source beavers are identified and captured, and how translocation sites are selected. Other details include how translocated beavers are behaving in their environment, the creation of a statewide Beaver Management and Restoration Plan, and how the public can get involved!

Molly Alves is the Beaver Restoration Program Supervisor and has been with CDFW since 2024, having come from Washington where she managed the Tulalip Beaver Project, a tribal-led beaver translocation program, for over a decade. Molly has trained countless biologists in safe trapping, transport, handling, and translocation techniques, presented her work at both national and international beaver conferences, served as a technical advisor to State and Tribal agencies and contributed to improvements to beaver management policy. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, the BBC, the New York Times, and many more.

R. Kyle Pagel is a Senior Environmental Scientist - Specialist with the Beaver Restoration Program and has been with CDFW since 2019. He is originally from Southern California and completed his B.S. at the University of Minnesota in 2014 and his M.S. at the University of Toledo in 2019.

You can view the resources mentioned in this talk at: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/...

Resources include and will soon include:
Translocation Project Proposal Form, Living with Beaver guidance, Beaver Observation Survey Tool, the 2025 Status Report on Beaver Restoration Projects, Beaver Coexistence Toolkit, Beaver Management and Restoration Plan, and the Updated California Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool/Beaver Prioritization Model

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