Article ID: CBB001420286

Ranchers' Friend and Farmers' Foe: Reshaping Nature with Beaver Reintroduction in California (2014)

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The twentieth-century project to restore animals to their former ranges often relied on the common support of sportsmen's groups, wildlife managers, and biologists. Beavers were common but controversial subjects of early reintroduction programs throughout the North American West. In California, rapidly expanding industrial agriculture created a particularly intense conflict over the fate of remaining beaver habitat. Advocates turned to higher elevation ranch lands to relocate problem beavers, emphasizing the economic benefits of raising water tables and reclaiming the potential resource repositories of the foothills and mountains. These habitat extensions were a novel means of commoditizing an animal whose status shifted from harmful to beneficial depending on location and situation.

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Authors & Contributors
Register, Cheri
Gissibl, Bernhard
Sean Nixon
Kochupillai, Mrinalini
Ingram, Darcy
Weber, Steven A.
Concepts
Conservation biology
Agriculture
Human-animal relationships
Hunting; trapping
Environmental protection
Animals
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Neolithic period
Places
United States
Great Britain
China
Atlantic world
South Asia
Sichuan Sheng (China)
Institutions
Yellowstone National Park
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