Join Alison Zak, Founder and Executive Director of the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund, for an educational and productive volunteer day to protect trees along Bullskin Run from being felled by resident beavers!

PVAS Host: Alison Zak and KC Walters

Free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, though youth must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required.

PVMN Continuing Education Credit and Volunteer Hours Eligible

PVAS is partnering with the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund (HBCF) for an educational and productive volunteer day to protect trees along Bullskin Run from being felled by resident beavers. Alison Zak, founder, and director of HBCF will teach participants how to coexist with beavers by wrapping trees to protect them from beaver chewing. We’ll meet at the nature center for a 30-minute talk and demonstration. Then we’ll put our new skills into practice to fence some trees in the surrounding area! No experience necessary. Wear rubber boots and bring work gloves and wire cutters, if you have them.

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About our Hosts:

About Alison: Alison Zak, M.A., is the Founder and Executive Director of the Human-Beaver Co-Existence Fund (http://www.coexistwithbeavers.org/), an organization dedicated to providing resources and financial support to address human-beaver conflict using non-lethal management strategies. Alison was PVAS’s first AmeriCorps member, serving from 2016 to 2017! Later she taught at the National Zoo and led education programs at the Clifton Institute, where she became a beaver believer. Alison is also an anthropologist, yoga teacher, and author of “Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World.” You can learn more at https://alisonzak.com/

About KC: KC is the PVAS Associate Director of Conservation and Operations! Read more about KC on her staff profile.