Episode 97: On Re-watering The West With Beavers And Decommissioning Forest Service Roads With Ben Goldfarb
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Ben Goldfarb, “Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter“
About Ben
Ben Goldfarb (@ben_a_goldfarb) is an award-winning environmental writer whose journalism has appeared in Mother Jones, Science, The Guardian, Orion Magazine, High Country News, Outside, Audubon Magazine, Pacific Standard, Hakai Magazine, VICE News, Yale Environment 360, and many other publications. His fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Motherboard, and The Hopper. He has spoken about environmental storytelling at venues including Stanford and Yale Universities, the American Fisheries Society, and the North American Congress for Conservation Biology.
Topics
- Curing the landscape amnesia of what it was like when healthy beaver populations ruled the West
- Water retention, fire breaks, refugia for countless species… beavers are on a whole different scale of single species importance
- How beavers even help their direct predator with housing
- Wither “Road Ripping?”
- The intersection of roads and beavers
- Mini economic stimulus projects: road obliteration
Extra Credit
Read: “Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter“
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.