Social science of beaver communication in Oregon
What affects landowners’ willingness and ability to take beaver coexistence action? We conducted interviews with 23 practitioners in Oregon about the outreach and engagement they do with landowners and non-lethal beaver conflict mitigation and proactive beaver habitat restoration. Open access results can be found here: beav.es/com-b
How do nonprofits, soil and water conservation districts, watershed councils, and state and federal agency staff try to build and maintain trust with landowners in their beaver communication? Open access results from our interviews with practitioners in Oregon can be found here: beav.es/trust
Pending: We led a short-term community of practice with beaver practitioners to explore what helps them learn how to improve their beaver communication. Our results about the community of practice are still in peer review. Please check back again in the coming months, or email the project team to learn more: megan.jones@oregonstate.edu
We wrote a final project report to our funder, Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund about outcomes achieved, lessons learned, and potential next steps for beaver communication research and practice. This includes two toolkits for practitioners to help them reflect on landowner coexistence action and trust-building, based on our first two studies above. Download the report here.