SAVE THE DATE!/Pamela Adams Freelance Beaver Detective Film Premiere/ FRI July 10
Margie Bushman
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“When you follow beavers, you follow a whole ecosystem” Pamela Adams
Join Pamela Adams of Beaver Insights along with filmmaker Kay D. Ray, for an evening of talk & film, with the premiere of the documentary film The Freelance Beaver Detective, Tracking Urban Wildlife.
Pamela Adams is a Seattle-based urban wildlife researcher, educator, and self-appointed Freelance Beaver Detective, who is pioneering community-based beaver ecology—especially focused on urban beavers & the wildlife their watery homes support, sometimes with the use of non-invasive wildlife trail cameras she has taught many citizens & communities to use.
Encouraging citizens to participate, Pamela’s vision is to foster more “freelance beaver detectives” in every urban waterway in the west and beyond. A hopeful, science-grounded look at how cities and wildlife can thrive together. As Pamela Adams states, “When you follow beavers, you follow a whole ecosystem”.
A cosponsor of the event, the Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade is a local advocacy group that has joined the Bring Back the Beaver campaign, helping to educate policymakers, landowners & the public of the many benefits of beavers, often referred to as “ecosystem restoration heroes”. A cofounder of the annual Central Coast Beaver Festival, the SB Beaver Brigade has monthly meetings the public is welcome to attend.
The Friday evening event is followed by a Wildlife Trail Camera workshop on Sat, July 11, 9am-Noon. Details and reservations at Friday film event.
Film Trailer: https://youtu.be/OVsBimzkIHo
Bio: Pamela Adams:
Pamela Adams majored in Fine Arts at San Francisco State University followed by careers in hospitality. She owned her own commercial Risk Management company until retiring to the Pacific Northwest to heal from cancer, where with the help of her time in nature she recovered. Adams began leading crews in the San Francisco Golden Gate National Recreation Area with the Youth Conservation Corps in 1979. During the Covid pandemic while living in the high desert of Bend, Oregon, she began using noninvasive wildlife cameras, learning by what they revealed that beavers aren’t extinct as she had mistakenly thought, and were in fact, actively re-wilding watersheds all over Oregon and Washington. She began learning everything she could about the life history of beavers. While putting her hobby of noninvasive cameras to work, she began pioneering community-based beaver ecology, encouraging others to also become “freelance beaver detectives” with a special focus on urban beavers. Now living in the city of Seattle, she has been tracking beavers in Longfellow Creek in West Seattle since 2022, her ongoing research informing that city of how beavers are thriving in an urban setting. She teaches & does numerous public speaking engagements, and is the subject of the documentary The Freelance Beaver Detective: Tracking Urban Wildlife, by filmmaker Kay D. Ray, that tells the story of her journey & work.
Website: Beaver Insights: https://beaverinsights.com/
FACEBOOK PAGE Beavers of Longfellow Creek Seattle: https://www.facebook.com/groups/638459631548760/
Bio: Kay D. Ray:
Seattle based producer & filmmaker Kay D. Ray of Kay D. Ray Productions has been following Pamela Adams, interviewing city agency representatives, and beaver conservation professionals exploring the challenges, and the benefits of beavers in Seattle's watersheds.
Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade:
Monthly meetings the 2nd Tuesday of the month 6:30-8pm (no meetings in July or December) at the South Coast Watershed Resource Center, Arroyo Burro County Park (Hendry’s Beach), 2981 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. All welcome.
Sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade
www.sbpermaculture.org 805 962-2571
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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
Margie Bushman: sbp...@silcom.com
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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