Name: Audubon Lecture, Why are Beavers So Important?
Start: 2025-11-13T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-11-13T20:30:00-07:00
Location: MRD Field House

Audubon Lecture, Why are Beavers So Important?

Why are Beavers so Important to Birds (and so many other species)? Lecture by Jackie Corday, Corday Natural Resources Consulting, Montrose, CO.
At Montrose Field House, Thurs 11/13/2025, 7pm
FREE, OPEN TO ALL
Jackie is a land and water conservation attorney who previously headed CPW's Water Resources Section in Denver. She moved to Montrose in 2019 to begin her natural resources consulting company. Jackie and Abby Burk (Audubon Rockies) are the Co-Chairs of the Colorado Healthy Headwaters Working Group. They collaborate with local, state, and federal agencies and non-profits to support stream and watershed health.
Jackie will discuss beaver natural history and how their dam building creates and maintains wetland habitat in Western Colorado that is crucial to many bird species and other aquatic and terrestrial species. Colorado and the West face unprecedented drought conditions, impacts from wildfires, and scarcity of water. These changes threaten our local and regional water supplies and our wildlife. Jackie will discuss how beaver wetlands play a critical role in improving the resiliency of our watersheds to wildfire and drought.