AWI is working to develop federal legislation that would establish a national beaver conflict-mitigation grant program to help tribes, states, agencies, local governments, landowners, conservation organizations, and others pay for nonlethal beaver-conflict solutions. More than 100 small businesses, wildlife groups, and tribes representing 33 states have joined a letter in support of this idea. In addition, some organizations and tribes have drafted separate letters of support.
Tribes
- Blackfeet Nation (Browning, MT) — Letter of Support
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (Pablo, MT)
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Pendleton, OR) — Letter of Support
- Nez Perce Tribe (Lapwai, ID) — Letter of Support
- The Tulalip Tribes of Washington (Tulalip, WA)
- Tule River Indian Tribe of California (Porterville, CA) — Letter of Support
- Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians (Arlington, WA)
Small Businesses
- Arable Earth, LLC (Gunnison, CO)
- Beaver & Wildlife Solutions (Chester, CT)
- Beaver Deceivers International (Grafton, VT)
- Beaver Leavers, LLC (Harsens Island, MI)
- Ecotone, LLC (Forest Hill, MD)
- Midwest Beaver Management, LLC (Beecher, IL)
- Swift Water Design (Sebastopol, CA)
Wildlife Organizations
- American River Conservancy (Coloma, CA)
- Animal Defenders International (Los Angeles, CA)
- Animal Legal Defense Fund (Cotati, CA)
- Animal Welfare Institute (Washington, DC)
- Arroyo Seco Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
- Beaver Institute, Inc. (Southampton, MA) — Letter of Support
- Beavers Forever (Sparks, NV)
- Beavers Work (Youngsville, NY)
- Born Free USA (Silver Spring, MD)
- Cahaba Riverkeeper (Birmingham, AL)
- Cascadia Wildlands (Eugene, OR)
- Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation (McAdenville, NC)
- Center for Biological Diversity (Minneapolis, MN)
- Center for Large Landscape Conservation (Bozeman, MT)
- Central Oregon Bitterbrush Chapter, Great Old Broads for Wilderness (Bend, OR)
- Central Oregon LandWatch (Bend, OR)
- Christian Council of Delmarva (Wilmington, DE)
- Clark Fork Coalition (Missoula, MT)
- Coastal Plains Institute (Crawfordville, FL)
- Collier County Waterkeeper (Naples, FL)
- Colorado Headwaters (Salida, CO)
- Connecticut Wildlife Rehabilitators Association (Woodbridge, CT)
- Conservation Council for Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)
- Defenders of Wildlife (Washington, DC)
- Endangered Habitats League (Los Angeles, CA)
- Endangered Species Coalition (Washington, DC)
- Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (Point Reyes Station, CA)
- Environmental Protection Information Center (Arcata, CA)
- Environmental Stewardship (Bastrop, TX)
- FOUR PAWS USA (Boston, MA)
- Geomorphic Science Solutions (Ithaca, NY)
- Grande Ronde Model Watershed (Enterprise, OR)
- Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance (Madison, WI)
- Greater Hells Canyon Council (La Grande, OR)
- Greater Yellowstone Coalition (Bozeman, MT)
- Heartwood (Tell City, IN)
- HFF Nature Trust (Atlanta, GA)
- Howling For Wolves (Hopkins, MN)
- Hudson Valley Beaver Strategies (Cross River, NY)
- Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund (Oakton, VA)
- Humane Action Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Humane Society Legislative Fund (Washington, DC)
- Illinois Beaver Alliance (Glenview, IL) — Letter of Support
- Institute for Historical Ecology (Los Altos, CA)
- International Fund for Animal Welfare (Washington, DC)
- International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute (Berkeley, CA)
- Klamath Forest Alliance (Arcata, CA)
- Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper (Sandpoint, ID)
- Lightning Canyon Ranch San (Antonio, TX)
- Methow Beaver Project (Twisp, WA)
- Milwaukee Riverkeeper (Milwaukee, WI)
- MSPCA-Angell (Boston, MA)
- National Wildlife Federation (Missoula, MT)
- Natural Resources Defense Council (Bozeman, MT)
- New Hampshire Audubon (Concord, NH)
- North Bay Bear Collaborative (Occidental, CA)
- Northeast Oregon Ecosystems (Joseph, OR)
- Northern California Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (San Francisco, CA)
- Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (Rochester, WA)
- NY4WHALES (Yonkers, NY)
- Occidental Arts & Ecology Center WATER Institute (Occidental, CA)
- Orange County Coastkeeper (Huntington Beach, CA)
- Oregon Wild (Portland, OR)
- Potomac Valley Audubon Society (Shepherdstown, WV
- Project Coyote (Larkspur, CA)
- Protect Our Wildlife (Stowe, VT)
- Resource Renewal Institute (Fairfax, CA)
- Russian Riverkeeper (Healdsburg, CA)
- San Luis Obispo County Beaver (Brigade Atascadero, CA)
- Satilla Riverkeeper (Waycross, GA)
- Save Our Seashore (Inverness, CA)
- Sierra Wildlife Coalition (Tahoe City, CA)
- South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership (Tiller, OR)
- South Yuba River Citizens League (Nevada City, CA)
- Southern Plans Land Trust, Inc. (Lamar, CO)
- Superior Bio-Conservancy (River Hills, WI)
- Sustainable St. Helena (St. Helena, CA)
- Tennessee Riverkeeper (Decatur, AL)
- The Beaver Coalition (Jacksonville, OR)
- The Humane Society of the United States (Washington, DC)
- The Rewilding Institute (Albuquerque, NM)
- The Wetlands Conservancy (Bend, OR)
- Trap Free Montana (Hamilton, MT)
- Trap Free Montana Public Lands (Hamilton, MT)
- True Grass Farms (Valley Ford, CA)
- Tualatin Riverkeepers (Tualatin, OR)
- Turtle Island Restoration Network (Olema, CA)
- Umpqua Watersheds (Roseburg, OR)
- Upper Missouri Waterkeeper (Bozeman, MT)
- Washington Wildlife First (Seattle, WA)
- Waterkeeper Alliance (New York, NY)
- WaterWatch of Oregon (Portland, OR)
- Western Nebraska Resources Council (Chadron, NE)
- Western Watersheds Project (Hailey, ID)
- Wild Farm Alliance (Watsonville, CA)
- WildEarth Guardians (Santa Fe, NM)
- Wildlands Network (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Worth A Dam (Martinez, CA)
- Wynwood Wildlife Rehabilitation (Elizabethton, TN)
- Wyoming Untrapped (Jackson, WY)
- Wyoming Wildlife Advocates (Wilson, WY)
- Zero Waste California (San Francisco, CA)