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BeaverCount XI Photos

  • Ponded area with inactive/breached dam in the background
  • Fresh cuts  on willows
  • The "Swamp Donkeys" on Zone V
  • The "Eager Beavers" on Zone II
  • Zone II from above showing beaver tracks away from the stream.
  • Ponded area with inactive/breached dam in the background
  • Fresh cuts  on willows
  • The "Swamp Donkeys" on Zone V
  • The "Eager Beavers" on Zone II
  • The "Swamp Donkeys" on Zone V
  • The "Eager Beavers" on Zone II
  • Zone II from above showing beaver tracks away from the stream.
  • Beaver tracks on an inactive dam.
  • Ponded area with inactive/breached dam in the background
  • Fresh cuts  on willows

Team Names

Zone I

Members of the Pocatello High Earth Club.  The "Surfer Snow Junkies"

Zone II

The "Surfer Snow Junkies" Dane, Eric, Matt and Aiden  double down and cover this zone as well

Zone III

Dedicated "Eager Beavers" Chris Ann and Elizabeth handle one of our most challenging zones

Zone IV

Experienced Flat-tailers Kitti and Sarah with freshman  Elizabeth tackle this zone as the "Three Dam Dames "

Zone V

Veteran Flat-tailers Daria and Greg with friend hike this zone as the "Swamp Donkeys"

Zone VI

Freshman Flat-tailers Sam, Destiny and Adam mark  this zone as the "Castor Counters"

Zone VIIa

New Flat-tailers Mitch, Carrie and  return Flat-tailer Duane scouted for beaver in this zone as "Jerry Mathers Experience".  A subtle nod to the "The Beav" 

Zone VIIb

Veteran and veteran Flat-tailer  Mark and  Les combine forces to count the gateway zone as "Leave it to Beavers"

Zone VIII

This zone was not counted.  More about this zone later.

Zone IX

Long-time Flat-tailers Richard and Paul ski the distance to census this zone as the "1,500  Yarders"  Good stamina, job well done!  Thank you for counting our longest zone.

Zone X

Gus and Joe skied upstream to spot beaver as "BCXC".  Yeah.  You are Nordic Ski gods!

Zone XI and XII

Jon and Colleen doubled up on data with Steve and Neoma, "The Walkers" to verify the absence of beavers on this zone that were supposed to be here.  Thank you for verifying what turned out to be a false lead.  Not as glamourous, but necessary.  Zone XII was sampled the week prior to BC and no beaver activity was observed on this zone.  

Below is the synopsis for 11 years of counting beaver

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

After seeing a steady decline in activity for the past 4 years, this year represents the lowest of the lows.

Zone V

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

Typically there is plenty of activity on this reach.  This year is  one of the lowest since Watershed Guardians was founded.

Zone VI

BeaverCount for Mink Cr.

Zone VI

The "Castor Counters" tallied this zone which was a bit of a boot from the parking lot.  Yay!  They saw some activity!

Zone IV

Zone IV

Zone VI

Censused by the 3 Dam  Dames, this reach was our "go to"  colony for years.  Now , it is wiped out.

Zone IX

Zone IV

Zone IX

Zone II

Zone IV

Zone IX

This is the zone where the training was conducted.  If you you went to training, you know where these are. 

Zone XIII

Zone XIII

Zone XIII

IF&G closed this reach to trapping two years after the last colony was recoreded here and 4 years after we requested that they close it to trapping..

Zone I

Zone XIII

Zone XIII

This zone was sampled by the Surfer Snow Junkies* and has some difficult access.  This may be one reason that it has intermittent activity.

Zone VII

Zone XIII

Zone VII

This zone was counted by the "Castor Counters" and "Leave it to Beavers" as zones VIIa and VIIb.  Typically a viable zone.  Message us at 232-0825 if you would like directions to  this zone.

Zone III

Zone III

Zone VII

This is one of our bright spots for this year's BeaverCount.  Fortunaetly, we had the "Eager Beavers" get to this VERY DIFFICULT zone counted this year.  Thank you, ladies!

Zone X

Zone III

Zone X

This zone was once the "Keystone" of our BeaverCount training.  In 2007, it hosted 26 active dams and as many as 8 activty clusters (colonies).   We sent 2 expeditions there this yaer to verify reports that activity had been seen there.  Alas, these were false.

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