We held our third annual Beaver Festival on April 12, 2025, and thanks to all of you it was a huge success, doubling last year’s attendance with over 3000 people in attendance !
Photos by our lovely photographer and board secretary, Brittany App.
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We had musical performances by Miles Danger Kennedy, and
… and Cuyama Mama and the Hot Flashes
Opening by Salinan Tribal Member, Shaunie Briggs
Meet our Speakers:
Our focus on this year’s festival was on the restoration techniques to improve the health of our watershed:
1. Adding a beaver to your watershed and how to do that with CDFW Beaver Restoration Supervisor, Molly Alves
2. Using prescribed burning to improve the health of your watershed, by Sophia Marquez of San Luis Obispo Prescribed Burn Association
3. Regenerative ranching with Grant Johnson, Grant Johnson Ag.
4. Process-based restoration techniques (including mimicking beavers!) with Cooper Lienhart of Nature’s Engineers.
Hear from our speakers:
Molly Alves, Keynote Speaker, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Sophia Marquez, Co-founder San Luis Obispo Prescribed Burn Association
Grant Johnson, Grant Johnson Ag LLC, Regenerative Rancher
Cooper Lienhart, Nature’s Engineers
Did you hear about our Beaver Dam Monitoring Volunteer Program from one of our Dam Volunteers, Bill Miller?
Photos from the festival!
Hope to see you next year!