13:00:21 From Jessica Dyke, The Sierra Fund to Everyone: Agenda here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LttOFf1SNSxt9CNbPGN7oy9Z86mf-4B85h3meHyVUFI/edit 13:02:56 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: calpbr.org 13:05:12 From Karen Pope to Everyone: Feel free to use the chat for questions and we will get to them at the end of each section. 13:05:35 From CDFW-Rhiannon.Mulligan to Everyone: beavers are cute 13:05:41 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Beverage comes from old English of beaver! 13:05:44 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Same with Beverly 13:06:02 From adamcummings to Everyone: Beavers can weigh over 80 pounds! 13:06:13 From Brennan Michels USFS to Everyone: The fastest land animal in the world isn't a beaver. 13:06:19 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: And their used to be a giant beaver! 13:06:23 From Joe to Everyone: taught fish to jump 13:06:23 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: Beavers can hold their breath for 15 min! 13:06:25 From Minona Heaviland to Everyone: Beaver teeth never stop growing 13:06:33 From Tommy Cianciolo, TU to Everyone: Beaver = GOAT 13:06:35 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: There were an estimated 200-400 million North American Beavers on the landscape prior to the fur trade. This totally changes what a river would look like on a map-not a simple blue line. 13:06:35 From Carmen Tull (he/him) - CDFW to Everyone: There is an extinct species that was a big as black bears 13:06:38 From Stuart S to Everyone: Canals and tail slaps. Need we say more? 13:06:55 From Carrie Johnson, USFS Truckee to Everyone: beavers can be a primary food source for wolves at certain times of year 13:06:57 From Matt Berry to Everyone: Teeth are made of IRON! 13:07:05 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Beaver can be sexed by expressing their anal oil and visually inspecting and smelling the oil. The ladies have a white more liquid oil that smells like blue cheese and the guys have a more viscous dark oil that smells like motor oil. 99% accurate!!! 13:07:12 From Liz van Diepen, Lahontan Water Board to Everyone: Beavers are monogamous 13:07:17 From Daniel Mendoza (he/him), Tahoe Conservancy to Everyone: Beavers secrete a goo that smells like vanilla 13:07:23 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: beavers were historically found all across CA, contrary to some historical data that claims they were not here 13:07:49 From Lee Margadant - CDFW to Everyone: Beavers are coprophagous 13:07:57 From Tyanna Blaschak - USFS to Everyone: Beavers are the largest living rodent in North America 13:07:59 From Adrianne Grimm, Yakama Nation, She/Her to Everyone: Iron teeth! 13:08:11 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Reacted to "Beavers are copropha..." with πŸ’“ 13:08:16 From Stuart S to Everyone: Reacted to "Beaver can be sexed ..." with πŸ‘ 13:08:16 From Dustin Revel to Everyone: beavers have closable ears 13:08:22 From K Sauve to Everyone: The largest beaver dam ever found was almost 800 meters long! 13:08:41 From Sheli Wingo, USFWS Partners Program to Everyone: Beaver habitats are filled with unlimited diversity of species 13:08:43 From iPad to Everyone: Beaver flavored ice cream! 13:08:53 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: These Beaver facts are amazing!!!! 13:09:53 From Will Arcand to Everyone: Live in lodges in ponds...or burrows in streambanks...awesome! 13:10:06 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Beaver have an inner nictating membrane they use to cover their eyes when swimming under water…built in goggles!!! 13:10:47 From Caroline Ristuccia to Everyone: Beaver were once dropped out of planes using parachutes to move them to new habitats! 13:11:11 From adamcummings to Everyone: Reacted to "Beaver can be sexed ..." with πŸ‘ 13:11:20 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Beaver bank burrows and foraging remnant stick piles provide critical escape cover for many native aquatic species including Coho salmon = river reefs! 13:11:41 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Reacted to "Beaver were once dro..." with πŸ’“ 13:12:11 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Google earth engine has almost every publicly available dataset, you do need some coding skills. 13:12:37 From Kyle McNeil (he/him) - SYRCL to Everyone: Beavers construct miles and miles of engineering that we are only able to mimic! 13:14:26 From Karl Ronning to Everyone: Beavers slap their tails on the water to indicate danger. 13:17:04 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: I use a SUP to survey beaver lodges. Works great and is fun! 13:17:32 From Eddie Corwin - He/Him to Everyone: Looks like art! I would love that image on my wall! 13:17:40 From Andrew to Everyone: Reacted to "Beaver have an inner..." with ❀️ 13:18:02 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: you can also get DEM from photogrammetry with a top down drone shot. 13:18:10 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: I'll second that! Emily- start selling prints 13:18:33 From Eddie Corwin - He/Him to Everyone: Yes! 13:21:51 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: largest beaver dam known to humans is visible from space and was discovered by remote sensing done during a permafrost study. I think it's in Alberta. 13:37:01 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: Amen! 13:37:10 From Karl Ronning to Everyone: Reacted to "Amen!" with ❀️ 13:37:21 From RosieG(USFWS) to Everyone: yay beavers. Take on that encroachment 13:37:59 From Karl Ronning to Everyone: Talk about fire break! 13:38:34 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: Heterogeneity for the win 13:39:09 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: do any beaver dams cause fish barrier issues with salmonids or other fish species of concern? 13:41:38 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: And different vegetation has different NDVI values, important to know what type of veg you are looking at. 13:42:09 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: There are many studies that look at a variety of fish/beaver interactions (salmonids in particular). Many positive effects have been documented for Coho, Steelhead, Chinook. Juveniles can wriggle through dams at will. Adults move when there is flow…often when it’s overtopping the dams. They have a pond to wait in until then, thanks to the beaver. 13:42:31 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: Great question Kevin. Several things to consider. Fish often move around during higher spring flows. Fish will be able to pass over and around the structures. They can use the canals as well. Fish can jump over smaller dams year round. 13:42:31 From Matt Berry to Everyone: They have co-evolved together for thousands of years 13:42:36 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Reacted to "Great question Kevin..." with πŸ‘ 13:42:51 From Gabe Singer (he/him), CDFW to Everyone: Reacted to "There are many studi..." with πŸ‘ 13:42:57 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Reacted to "There are many studi..." with πŸ‘ 13:43:45 From Dave Ryan to Everyone: Beaver dam/ponds also contribute cold water inputs to salmon streams over longer periods in the summer 13:44:21 From Jonny Lambert, Yakama Nation Fisheries, Habitat to Everyone: Do you have any tips on mapping relic beaver activity on systems where they have been removed and absent for years/decades? 13:45:43 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: This is another good source (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/tutorials/community/drawing-tools-region-reduction) 13:46:22 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Or this 13:46:23 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: https://harelg25.users.earthengine.app/view/ndvi-m 13:46:34 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: @Jonny, we have looked for and found remnant beaver dams that we then carbon date. Ellen Wohl at Colorado State Univ. has been using ground penetrating radar in meadows to find buried beaver dams. Sabra Purdy has a write up about what she looks for in streams. You can find it at the end our our report here: https://oaec.org/publications/beaver-recruitment-strategy-for-tasmam-koyom/ 13:46:40 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: There are concerns with beaver pond habitat favoring non-native brook trout in critical habitat bull trout streams here in Oregon. 13:48:45 From Jonny Lambert, Yakama Nation Fisheries, Habitat to Everyone: @Kate, Thank you! 13:49:06 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Reacted to "@Kate, Thank you!" with 😊 13:53:24 From Tommy Cianciolo, TU to Everyone: How did you arrive at the 0.3 ndvi threshold?? 13:55:54 From Eddie Corwin - He/Him to Everyone: Go Project EEager! 13:56:33 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Sweet profile pic Dr Fairfax 13:57:05 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: @Tommy - the 0.3 is from the larger body of scientific literature where they found a bunch of healthy riparian zones and unhealthy ones on ground first then looked to see what the NDVI was in each. From that, they found that threshold 13:57:13 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: @Kevin - thanks!! 13:57:51 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: @Jeff - sounds like we should have some non-native trout BBQ's at the beaver ponds then to clean them up 😎 13:58:30 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: Reacted to "I'll second that! 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I wo..." with πŸ’™ 14:02:19 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: Reacted to "you can also get DEM..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 14:02:23 From Dr. Emily Fairfax (she/her) to Everyone: Reacted to "largest beaver dam k..." with 🀩 14:10:00 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: Reacted to "@Jeff - sounds like ..." with πŸ‘ 14:30:02 From Charnna Gilmore to Everyone: Thank you for all the excellent material shared today! I have to jump to another call. 14:38:55 From Vanessa rojas to Everyone: There are a lot of steps happening here, are there tutorials SOP's or other literature we can reference to start learning these processes? 14:40:46 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: @Vanessa, great feedback, thank you! For what it’s worth. the recording will be shared so you can rewatch it to go over the steps again. 14:44:32 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Is this type of assessment only possible with a relative elevation model, or could it also be done using a standard digital elevation model? 14:45:21 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: What structures are used to "sink it"? 14:49:35 From Stuart S to Everyone: ^I am also curious about this and if there is a one-pager visual or something for structures used in each part of the analogy 14:50:07 From Liz van Diepen, Lahontan Water Board to Everyone: What does treating return flows typically look like? 14:50:31 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: Structures such as Beaver dam analogs or Post assisted log structures 14:50:38 From Jeff Kerber, Klamath Watershed Partnership to Everyone: great. thanks. I knew spreading would sink some, but wasn't sure if there was a specific tactic in those specific labelled areas. 14:51:03 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: You can treat return flows with structures below them. Back water up to the return. 14:51:12 From Vanessa rojas to Everyone: Do any of the projects get subsequently compared to reference areas? I don't think its reasonable to except them to be the same, but perhaps there's some interesting lessons learned there? Ex: Differences in sinuosity? 14:51:31 From Patrick Johnson, NTCD to Everyone: Do you know if there is a similar ProcessSpace package for Python? 14:52:22 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Are you taking into account soil types and infiltration rates for these sites. In super clay rich soils, it seems like you would get more flooding then infiltration. Maybe that's ok if you have the space (e.g. no structures nearby) 14:56:18 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Related to my last question, it seems like most of these projects are easiest to implement in large wildland/recreational areas with few structures. Have you had success implementing this type of project in a more rural residential area with more structures next to streams? 14:56:35 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Structures meaning homes 14:57:11 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: A list of resources and types of structures can be found here: https://www.symbioticrestoration.com/beaver-dam-analogs 14:59:43 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Thanks for those perspectives! 15:16:00 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Super impressive! Seems like a really great toolset! 15:16:04 From K Sauve to Everyone: Thank you! Good stuff. Keep up the good work! 15:16:10 From Becky Howard to Everyone: Can you show the GitHub link again 15:18:20 From Stuart S to Everyone: Reacted to "A list of resources ..." with πŸ‘ 15:19:11 From adamcummings to Everyone: http://adamcummings.net/ProcessSpace/ 15:19:18 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Reacted to "http://adamcummings...." with πŸ‘ 15:23:09 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Thank you so much to both of you, and thanks to the organizers, this was excellent! If folks are looking to ever collaborate in SW Colorado, and particularly mountain regions, please reach out. Jake@mountainstudies.org! 15:23:57 From Garrett Costello- Symbiotic Restoration to Everyone: https://lowtechpbr.restoration.usu.edu/ 15:24:08 From Stuart S to Everyone: Reacted to "https://lowtechpbr.r..." with πŸ‘ 15:25:11 From Alecia Weisman - SYRCL (She/Hers) to Everyone: Just keep swimming :) 15:25:20 From adamcummings to Everyone: Reacted to "Just keep swimming :..." with πŸ‘ 15:25:33 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Replying to "Just keep swimming :..." That was my motto in grad school! 15:25:42 From jhuitema to Everyone: Reacted to "Just keep swimming :..." with πŸ‘ 15:30:15 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: AI will have a huge impact on remote sensing and available products. 15:30:46 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: I love how active beaver colonies can often be detected through their scent mounds even sooner than visual cues. If you aren’t familiar with their smell, buy some beaver lure. Unmistakeable! 15:33:57 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: What drone would you recommend people use for this kind of field work? 15:34:59 From jhuitema to Everyone: do you have a Lidar camera on your drone Emily? or how do you collect the data with your drones 15:35:06 From Daniel Mendoza (he/him), Tahoe Conservancy to Everyone: Any concern about potential legislation that may prevent state agencies from purchasing dji in the future? 15:35:15 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: DJI actually makes a free flight simulator you can download 15:35:43 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: so you could practice flying digitally to get use to the controls 15:35:56 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Photogrammetry is possible with optical, but that's only surface to my understanding 15:37:07 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Worth mentioning you do need to get your Part 107 drone license if you are flying non-recreationally 15:37:08 From Joshua Gilbert- Anabranch Solutions to Everyone: Drones with compatibility with automated software (such as drone deploy) are great, you can make automated flight plans that take all the photos you need for your project area and process it. Without actually having to fly it or worry that you may not have taken enough pictures. 15:38:19 From iPad to Everyone: EXO is a USA based drone co. Manufactured in taiwan 15:41:35 From Will Arcand to Everyone: Thanks to both of you - good stuff as always! 15:41:37 From Stuart S to Everyone: Much appreciation and thanks for your time, Emily and Adam! Interesting overview/refresher today. 15:41:41 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Decent Part 107 test study guide Youtube video that I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ucCKFJUCU&t=4873s 15:42:13 From iPad to Everyone: Thank you so much! 15:42:20 From Sheli Wingo, USFWS Partners Program to Everyone: Thank you both for this information rich training! I learned so much! 15:42:23 From Kevin Cullinen - Sonoma RCD to Everyone: Thanks for the great presentations! 15:42:35 From Cindy Buxton, WRTC to Everyone: thank you for this great workshop. 15:42:50 From Dustin Revel to Everyone: Thank You! 15:42:51 From Joe to Everyone: Thank you, very well done, I learned a lot. 15:43:03 From Kate Lundquist, OAEC WATER Institute to Everyone: Thanks for a great workshop Adam and Emily…and for facilitating Karen! Go CalPBR Network! 15:43:15 From Jake Kurzweil - Mountain Studies Institute, CO to Everyone: Fantastic, thanks everyone! 15:43:23 From jhuitema to Everyone: Such an awesome workshop! Thank you Cal PBR and Emily/Adam 15:43:43 From Tyanna Blaschak - USFS to Everyone: Great workshop, thank you!