Looking for ways you can help support beavers' success on our High Desert landscapes?
Beaver Works Oregon seeks volunteer assistance in the following areas:
- Riverhood Monitoring this Fall 2021. Work with a 2-3 person team dedicated to set up and monitoring trail camera footage to understand beaver populations and dynamics. Learn more.
- Videography/Photography/Storytelling. Help us to build a collection of "Beaver Tales" - sharing stories of beaver on the landscape around Eastern Oregon. Please bring your own skills and equipment.
- Website or social media management
- As needed, fencing and painting 'hands on' in the field - see upcoming projects at our Hands on Habitat page
- Scientific and research expertise around watershed or rangeland restoration
To get involved, please fill out a volunteer form at our Think Wild Volunteer page.
Pamela’s lifelong interest in wildlife and background in fine arts coalesced in 2019 when she set up her first trail camera. A bobcat sauntered across her screen, changing the course of her life with it. Pamela uses trail cameras to document hundreds of hours of beavers living their lives under cover of darkness around the Deschutes River Basin as lead field tech of the Beaver Response Team. She believes in the power of an ‘unbiased eye’ as a citizen scientist who doesn’t have formal science education. The new frontier of wildlife study is expanding exponentially as people now have access to inexpensive trail cameras and sharing the findings with other interested parties. It’s her passion to encourage other citizen scientists to join in the wildlife monitoring adventure with her. Volunteer opportunities for 2021 are in the works.