At least three beaver dams spanning Dry Creek in different spots between the Creekside Golf Course and Claus Road were spotted for the first time recently.
Michael Hart, a volunteer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who routinely monitors the area, was alerted to them in early February by a homeowner close to the creek.
“Look how you can see how it catches all that sediment, that stuff floating on the water,” Hart said while observing one of the dams recently. He pointed to a line of twigs and branches that stretch along the creek, pooling upstream water.
Beavers are native to California, and the Central Valley in particular, but their numbers were decimated during the fur trade in the late 1800s. Dams like these are evidence of recovery in the region…