March 23rd, 2024, SLO Mission Plaza. Photo by Brittany App. Volunteer a few hours or the whole day with set up or cleanup, distributing festival pamphlets, assisting with children’s activities and more! Let’s have fun spreading the word about nature’s best engineer: the beaver! Fill out this form to let us know you are interested […]
SLO Beaver Brigade becomes a hub for Drinkable Rivers
In February, 2024, the SLO Beaver Brigade became a hub for Drinkable Rivers. From the Drinkable Rivers Website: Our Story: In 2005 Li An Phoa canoed the full length of a river in Canada, the Rupert. All along the way, she could drink water straight from the river. Three years later, Li An came back and […]
2nd Annual SLO County Beaver Festival
March 23rd, 2024 10am – 3pm, SLO Mission Plaza, 939 Chorro Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. If you’d like to volunteer with us for this event, please sign up here! The SLO Beaver Brigade invites eager beavers of all ages to the Second Annual San Luis Obispo County Beaver Festival on Saturday, March 23rd […]
CDFW Beaver Restoration Program needs our help
(From the CDFW Beaver Webpage ) The CDFW Beaver Restoration Program is updating the current range map of beavers in California. To help improve this dataset and our understanding of the current range of beavers in California, the BRP is requesting submissions of additional beaver observation data. Beavers were once one of the most widely […]
2023 Year In Review
In looking back on 2023, all of us here at the SLO Beaver Brigade are stunned by all that has happened this year. It seems like ages ago when we were celebrating our First Annual Beaver Festival. And then, remember the sold out Fundraiser at Castoro Cellars? And beginning this year with the floods that […]
State of the Beaver Conference 2023
It was quite a highlight for Cooper Lienhart and myself, Audrey Taub, to get to attend and present at the State of the Beaver Conference in Canyonville, Oregon this Nov 13-16, 2023. We were able to hear from the founders of this conference, Stan Petrowski, Leonard & Lois Houston and feel their passion for their […]