Shaping the Salish Sea: Beavers and Salmon

Beavers and salmon have co-existed and co-evolved over seven million years, and they have a mutually beneficial relationship: beavers provide habitat for salmon and the salmon return nutrients to the rivers and streams.
This film explores the relationship between the two species with particular emphasis on how chum salmon navigate beaver dams when returning to spawn in the fall.
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[@DansBackcountry]

Fantastic video!

[@Waxwingeco]

Thank you!

[@BennettBuilt-yu2gw]

Awesome video and commentary! What a great place to get a chance to explore. We recently ran into our first mountain beaver at the Edgewater Community Center in Poulsbo. Watching it forage and drag food back to its den completely ignoring us at we watched.

[@Waxwingeco]

Thank you so much! Beavers are such amazing creatures and so fun to watch. I was very lucky to be able to observe this interesting behavior.