Name: Beavers Can Help Us (and Native Plants). Can We Let Them?
Start: 2025-11-12T19:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-12T21:00:00-08:00

Join Heidi Perryman to learn about the history of beavers in California, and why beaver recovery is essential to creek health and biodiversity.

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Heidi Perryman is a child psychologist who became an accidental beaver advocate when a family of beavers moved into Martinez, California, in 2007. She served on the beaver subcommittee for the city and started the nonprofit [Worth A Dam](https://martinezbeavers.org/) to advocate for their ongoing presence. Now the group helps other cities learn to coexist with this valuable keystone species.

Heidi’s talk will address the history of beavers in California as well as the ecological impact of their near loss and ongoing recovery. Beavers coevolved with native plants and when allowed create and sustain ideal conditions for them to flourish. Using lessons learned firsthand in Martinez, Heidi will outline how and why beaver recovery is essential to creek health and biodiversity, as well as tools used to manage their more challenging behaviors. Her pragmatic and engaging talk is illustrated with dynamic photos of the famed Martinez Beavers, which have become some of the best-known beavers in the world.

Sue R.

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