Upcoming events.
Beavers and the Landscape: A Presentation, Film and Discussion
Join us May 16th to hear from Calaveras-raised Dr. Kramer. She will share some insights and case examples from her research and experiences about how the presence of beaver activity can impact landscapes and water availability on long and short time scales. After her presentation, we’ll be showing a short documentary film Beavers, followed by an opportunity for discussion. See below for more about Dr. Kramer.
Bio:
Dr. Natalie Kramer grew up in Vallecito and graduated from Bret Hart High School in 2003. After leaving home she obtained a degree in Geology from Humboldt State, and Masters and Doctorate from Colorado State University in fluvial geomorphology, aka river science. While at CSU she studied how beaver damming influenced sedimentation of high elevation valleys in the Rocky Mountains and the importance of the natural flux and deposition of instream wood in from the mountains to the sea in northern Canada. She continued on and worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Joe Wheaton at Utah State, who runs one of the most active consulting businesses in implementing beaver dam analogs or BDAs for restoring watersheds. She now resides in Washington State with her husband and two kids.
Earth Day Festival
Stop by the Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch Booth and visit us! Or join us for a movie afterwards !
A Beaver Double Feature
Join us at the historic Douglas Flat School for two short films about Beavers! FREE to the public. Donations encouraged to support Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch and the Douglas Flat Community Center. Information about the films below.
Leave it to Beavers: Scientists and environmentalists have come to
discover that beavers can transform and revive landscapes and also counter the effects of global warming just by using their
natural abilities to build and serving as hydro-engineers.
Beavers takes an intimate look at one beaver family and their
aquatic habitat puts a remarkably human face on these amazing creatures’ emotions.
Film Screening: Elemental
FREE to the public
Donations welcomed to support Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch and the Douglas Flat Community Center
Elemental takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harrowing escape from Paradise as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire’s start. We visit fire labs where researchers torch entire houses to learn why some homes burn and others survive. We learn from Native Americans as they employ fire to benefit nature and increase community safety as they have for thousands of years. We follow researchers who work to understand the effects of climate on forests and the crucial role that natural forests play in storing vast amounts of carbon. Along the way we listen to people who have survived the deadliest fires to underscore the importance of this quest.
Burned: Are Trees The New Coal
BURNED tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and blatant green washing of the burgeoning biomass power industry
FREE to the public
Donations welcomed to support Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch and Douglas Flat Community Center