Also called: Process-Based Restoration Technician, Beaver Dam Analog Builder
Brings beavers and beaver-style dams back to Western streams to store water, fight drought and slow wildfires.
The specialist and a crew pound wooden posts into a dry creek and weave willow branches between them to build “beaver dam analogs.” The structures slow water and invite real beavers to move in. On other days they relocate problem beavers from towns to remote streams and monitor how the land turns green.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Degree in ecology, hydrology or wildlife biology.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Ecology, Watershed Science, Wildlife Biology.
Growing faster than average. Drought and wildfire are driving new projects.
Low risk for 10 years. Satellites and AI map good sites, but building dams and moving beavers is fieldwork.
Classes: Biology, Earth science, Environmental science.
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