Predicted Beaver Dam Building Capacity in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro Area

The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) (MacFarlane et al., 2015) is a predictive model that integrates hydrology, topography, vegetation, and land use data to predict existing and historical beaver dam building capacity within a watershed. The model was run on the HUC8 Mississippi River Twin Cities Watershed (07010206) in March 2025. The output displayed is a shapefile of the Conservation Restoration Model, which includes existing and historical dam building capacity as well as restoration opportunities.