Beaver Resources for a Better Environment
How to help beavers and benefit from them at the same time Beavers are a critically important keystone species. They are highly intelligent, social, and family-oriented animals with exceptional engineering skills. In fact, after humans and elephants, beavers arguably...
2025 was a BIG year for the New Mexico Beaver Project
Hello Beaver Believers of New Mexico! This was a BIG year for the New Mexico Beaver Project, partially because we’re pretty darn new, but also because we got a lot done and felt a lot of love and engagement from New Mexicans across the state. We started the year by...
Native species known as ‘nature’s Swiss Army knife’ is rapidly expanding
A year and a half has passed since the historic moment when wildlife officials re-released a family of six beavers to their state habitat — the first time they had returned to their native range in nearly 75 years as part of a major project spearheaded by the CDFW and...
Beaver fever: $1.5M proposed for beaver restoration efforts
Lawmakers have introduced a package of bills that proposes sweeping changes to the Department of Game and Fish, including a possible name change. Now, the “modernization” reform effort has prompted a proposed $10.5 million from the general fund for at-risk wildlife...
Beavers + Beer Abiquiú Edition – Thursday, January 16th, 5:00 PM
New Mexico Beaver Project is coming to Abiquiú! Chris Smith, Wildlife Program Director of WildEarth Guardians, and Reid Whittlesey, Restoration Director at Rio Grande Return, will be discussing how beavers can make New Mexico a more lush, resilient, hospitable, and productive place for people and wildlife.
We hope to see you there!
Beavers improve the ecosystem for humans and animals
My View by Julia Morgan My partner, Alex, and I live in an old adobe schoolhouse in Ocate, about an hour’s drive north of Las Vegas, N.M. We raise Valais Blackneck Goats with our two livestock guardian dogs and are also volunteer wildland firefighters. On the...
Beavers + Beer Taos Edition – Wednesday, September 25th, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
EVENT DETAILS HERE We are having our third installment of Beavers + Beer in Taos next week, September 25th (invite attached) and we’d love if you could join us! You’ll park your car at Fred Baca Park and take a very quick stroll to the Taos Land Trust (there will be...
Can Wildlife Services Learn to Believe in Beavers?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture killed more than 23,000 beavers in 2017. There’s a better way to manage our ecosystem engineers. Each spring Wildlife Services, the branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture tasked with controlling problematic fauna, engages in a...