Events – Methow Beaver Project

Beaver Habitat Tours

The Methow Okanogan Beaver Project is now offering free monthly educational beaver habitat, beaver based restoration, beaver coexistence site tours!

April Tour (Saturday, April 19th from 10am - 1pm): You're invited to the Methow Okanogan Beaver Project's first ever public tour in the Okanogan Watershed! Come explore the Methow's sister watershed and appreciate the beauty of beaver habitat in the spring! We'll tour some active beaver habitat and look for beaver activity and then take a look at MOBP's restoration work while we discuss beaver based restoration. Unfortunately our April tour is now full, if you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please Sign up here.

May Tour and Work Party (Saturday, May 17th from 1pm - 4pm): Our May Beaver Habitat Tour will be an exciting opportunity to tour a close-to-home beaver locale and make a difference in our community! Join the MOBP team for a tour of the beaver habitat at Twisp Ponds followed by an opportunity for some hands-on work to spruce up the Twisp Ponds property ahead of an upcoming salmon restoration project. Work will include wrapping priority shade trees to protect from beaver browsing, removing old chicken wire and other trash from the site, and some light brush trimming along the trails. This will be a fun opportunity for some engaging service work and community-building in a scenic beaver habitat location! Sign up here.

Attendance is free, but spots are limited - sign up now to join us! Can't make it? Stay tuned for more tour offerings to different locations later this spring/ summer.

Spring Beaver Relocator Workshops

Are you a wildlife professional, restoration practitioner, or just a beaver-ally with a strong interest in learning to relocate beavers? Join us for our Spring Beaver Relocator Workshops. In partnership with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Methow Okanogan Beaver Project is offering two Beaver Relocation and Coexistence Training days this Spring.

When: 8am-4pm on Friday, April 18th and 8am-4pm on Monday, May 19th
Where: Winthrop National Fish Hatchery
Cost: Free to all who are interested
Sign up: Please register with both MOBP and WDFW by emailing:

WDFW through Shawn Behling - shawna.behling@dfw.wa.gov
MOBP through Livvie Bright - livvie.mbp@methowsalmon.org

Spring Volunteer Training Day

Have you ever wanted to get up close and personal with a beaver? Maybe you've been dreaming of joining the MOBP team in the field for a day of BDA-building or native plant mulching? Do you want to support a local nonprofit and help improve the biodiversity and climate resilience of our region?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should come to MOBP's Volunteer Training Day on Saturday May 3rd! Hosted at the Winthrop National Fish Hatchery, this day will be an opportunity for interested community members to learn about different volunteer opportunities with the Methow Okanogan Beaver Project and to learn skills such as caring for relocated beavers at the hatchery, surveying local streams for beaver activity, and staking out beaver ponds to get beaver photos and videos for our outreach materials. As a small non-profit, volunteers are an essential component to MOBP's success! If you have unique skills that you'd like to contribute to a beaver-y application (ex. art for a t-shirt design, videography experience, techy inventions, etc.) we'd love to hear from you.

Where: Winthrop National Fish Hatchery

When: May 3rd from 9am - 12pm

Why: Learn skills to become a volunteer with the Methow Okanogan Beaver Project

Sign up: Sign up here.