Monsoon Film Festival and The Beaver Believers
09/24/2020 - 6:00pm
Beavers
Monsoon Film FestivalBeaver River music video spoof!
Music video tribute to WMG's river restoration work and Release the Beavers campaign. Parody of Old Town Road.
2019 Fall WMG Newsletter
Desert River Reborn - Local Water Supplies Shape the Future
The good news keeps coming for our rivers this year. In June, we celebrated the launch of the Santa Cruz Heritage Project, releasing recycled water into the river to support perennial ow through downtown Tucson. Now we learn another stretch of the Santa Cruz River is also owing regularly, thanks to restored groundwater levels.
Beers, beavers and birthdays in store for Tucson this weekend
Before they were wiped out by hunters and trappers in the early 1800s, beavers were a fairly common site in Southern Arizona.
The nonprofit Watershed Management Group hopes to make their regular presence a reality again by reintroducing beavers to local waterways, with a little help from the Tucson community.
Local Opinion: Beavers Belong in Southern Arizona
by WMG River Restoration Biologst Trevor Hare
Dam shame: Beavers face second extinction on San Pedro River
Twenty years after their triumphant return, beavers have nearly vanished once again from the San Pedro River.
No beaver dams have been recorded within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area for the past three years, and only a few individual animals have been spotted along the river 85 miles southeast of Tucson.
Local Opinion: As Tucson-area rivers are reborn, we can do even more to help them flow
The following column is the opinion and analysis of the writer.
River restoration group is eager for beavers to return to Tucson watershed
Here’s something you might not know, unless you’re a restoration ecologist: Bringing back the beaver isn’t cheap.
