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New Mexico Environment Department
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Free Workshop:
Coexisting with Beavers by Preventing Damage
May 20–21, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
 Beaver dams sometimes cause problems on roads or properties near streams. Flow devices can be built and installed relatively quickly and inexpensively to let water flow in the presence of beavers, allowing them to continue to maintain the beneficial ecological habitat that they provide, without damaging roads or property.
This two-day workshop is co-sponsored by the NM Environment Department (NMED) and Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM).
Workshop Purpose: Day One of the training (for government-agency participants only) will include on-site training and construction of devices to mitigate beaver damage, as well as live-trapping instruction. Day Two participants (open to the public) will hear from speakers regarding live trapping, flow devices, beaver biology, and habitat restoration related to beavers. These participants will also see the completed device constructed on Day One and observe how to properly live trap beavers.
Who is Invited: State, federal, city, county, and tribal entities only on Day One. On Day Two, interested public and APNM’s volunteer field group, the Beaver Brigade, are invited.
When and Where: Day One — May 20, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM — Various government agency participants will meet at the NMED south parking lot to carpool to the field site. We will meet in the parking lot of the Harold Runnels Building. Day Two — May 21, 9:00 AM — Participants are to meet in the NMED Harold Runnels Building Auditorium. Speakers and schedule:
- Bill Zeedyk, Zeedyk Ecological Consulting – riparian and wetland protection and restoration
- Sherrie Tippie, Wildlife 2000 – 22 years’ experience live trapping beavers in Colorado
- US Fish and Wildlife Service Representative Denise Smith, Partners for Fish & Wildlife
- NM Department of Game and Fish Depredation Coordinator Barbara Coulter
- Skip Lisle, Beaver Deceivers Int’l – 15 years’ experience building Beaver DeceiversTM
- Dave Foreman, Rewilding Institute – a think tank dedicated to "the development and promotion of ideas and strategies to advance continental-scale conservation in North America and to combat the extinction crisis."
12:00 PM Lunch on your own (many restaurants are within walking distance)
1:15 PM Meet at NMED south parking lot — carpool to site
4:00 PM Adjourn
Important: Please RSVP to Debbie Risberg of APNM , 265-2322 x 25, or 205-5740; call if you need more information.
Directions to NM Environment Dept., Harold Runnels Building:
Enter Santa Fe from I-25 at St. Francis Drive. Turn west at light on Alta Vista St. The Harold Runnels Building parking lot is the first right.
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