About this episode

This episode explores the role of beavers in restoring ecosystems and managing water resources amidst climate challenges.

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature. Featuring Kate Lundquist, co-director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign in Sonoma County, is a conservationist, educator and ecological artist who works with landowners, communities and resource agencies to uncover obstacles, identify strategic solutions, and generate restoration recommendations to assure healthy watersheds, water security, listed species recovery and climate change resiliency. Brock Dolman, co-founded (in 1994) the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center…

People in this episode

Guests: Kate Lundquist, Brock Dolman

Topics covered

• climate change
• biodiversity
• water management
• ecology
• conservation

Keywords

• beaver restoration
• climate disruption
• water security
• soil erosion
• biodiversity loss

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bringing Back Beaver, Golden Pipe Award

Places: Sonoma County, California

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