Building Beaver Dams: USU Students and Volunteers Team Up In Habitat Restoration Project
By Taylor Emerson |
On Saturday, USU students built beaver dam analogs along about a half-mile privately-owned stretch of Birch Creek located just outside of Preston, Idaho.
The goal of the project is to help improve the riverscape’s heath and to restore perennial flow back to a creek that had as of recently been drying up in June. It was done in partnership with the landowner, Jay Wilde, an Idaho rancher who teamed up with USU Professor Joseph Wheaton to help restore the creek back to a year-round water source.
According to Wheaton, through work previously done upstream, flows in Birch Creek have been extended to September. This most recent work was done as a capstone project in the WATS 5350/6350 class, and as a part of the curriculum for the WATS 5624/CEWA 5624 course.
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Taylor Emerson
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University Marketing and Communications
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Joe Wheaton
Associate Professor and Fluvial Geomorphologist
S. J. Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
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