Stream Restoration Dates Posted!
Thank you for signing up to learn more about our Stream & Riparian Restoration volunteer days. We're excited to work with you to restore stream habitats for wildlife and human communities. We've just posted lots of new project dates!
Join other volunteers, staff, and partners for a fun day outdoors to heal Utah's degraded streams.
Ready to get out into a stream?
What to Expect
Plan to get muddy, learn something new about the landscape, carry fence posts, cut branches with hand tools, and construct restoration structures in the stream. You’ll be instructed on the best ways to do this at the project.
For more details, review our FAQ page. Each of our upcoming projects also has unique times and details located on our project page. Note that before any given project date, we will send out an email with further specific information to those signed up.
FAQs
What's wrong with Utah's streams? Beaver have been removed from many of Utah's rivers. This means we've lost the positive impacts they provide for wildlife habitat and human health & safety.
Installing human-made beaver dams works to restore these crucial habitats by providing hydrologic connectivity, reducing erosion, creating fire breaks, and reducing runoff and floods.
Why use human-made beaver dams? Simple restoration tools—such as human-made beaver dams, or "beaver dam analogues"—are a means to achieve the environmental benefits of beaver. Affordable, simple, and effective, this "low-tech" technique is something more and more groups are using in their restoration efforts.
In addition to improving the health of degraded areas, this work also paves the way for successful beaver re-establishment, meaning further habitat healing and major benefits for wildlife and humans alike.
Where else have these techniques been used? Beaver dam analogs are low-tech by nature, and there is a growing movement across the western US to restore riverscapes by catalyzing natural ecological processes. Check out this map to see where Sageland Collaborative and others groups are restoring streams!
Do I need experience or training? No! No formal preparation is required, and you're welcome to join for one day of work or many. You will, however, need to be able to do physical work outdoors, including navigating uneven surfaces. Read our FAQ page for more information.
Can't Join This Year?
If you aren't able to join us, consider supporting this work by sharing with family and friends and/or making a sustaining donation. You can also check out our other projects or contact us for information on in-kind donations.