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Meet Dr. Maureen Thompson, Beaver Works Oregon Program Manager

Meet Dr. Maureen Thompson, Beaver Works Oregon Program Manager In Summer 2023, Think Wild’s Beaver Works program hired a full time program manager, Dr. Maureen Thompson, to conduct expanded outreach and education, workshops and professional development events, and numerous beaver habitat and coexistence projects on public and private lands in…
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The Benefits of Beavers – Nature’s Engineers

The Benefits of Beavers – Nature’s Engineers Scientists regard beavers as a “keystone species”—a species that creates biodiversity by modifying the environment in a way that benefits the ecosystem and encourages the presence of other species.  These large, brown, aquatic mammals were once ubiquitous in the American West, building dams,…
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