- Our StoryWalk this winter features The Lodge that Beaver Built by Randi Sonenshine! Our busy librarians channeled their inner busy beavers and built a StoryWalk worth the walk all winter long! The Lodge That Beaver Built brings to light the habits of this fascinating, important creature. Located along a side path off the Yampa River Core Trail near the Stockbridge Transit Center, Steamboat StoryWalk is an innovative way for families to enjoy stories together in the outdoors as you meander between parts of a deconstructed story that is placed at intervals along a walking trail.
- Check out some beaver basics from Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW). CPW announced plans to form an internal working group to initiate the beaver management planning process at the April 5, 2024 meeting in Denver, where Governor Polis expressed his support for CPW’s beaver conservation efforts. The state’s support for inclusive beaver management planning will set Colorado on a path to improve climate resilience while addressing critical social and economic considerations.
- Learn more about the Colorado Beaver Working Group. If you want to stay up to date on all things beaver happening here in Colorado, including the Beaver Working Group's newsletter and info about upcoming meetings, join their Google group here.
- READ MORE! Ben Goldfarb writes about beavers and beaver analogs in the Kawuneeche Valley (the west entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park), hopes for reinvigorating and rehydrating that wet valley ecosystem, and the obstacles of moose, humans and other environmental/political factors.