B E A V E R S A R E A M A Z I N G !

This zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is an ode to THE BEAVER. Created during the winter term of 2017 as a collaboration between Ethan Seltzer’s Portland State graduate Planning in the Pacific Northwest class (USP 594 to be exact), Kate Bingaman-Burt (zine workshop coordinator), and the Independent Publishing Resource Center (where we held the workshop and printed the zines). BEAVERS ARE AMAZING! is a visual representation of the class research papers. If you find yourself LOVING this zine, be sure to dive deeper and read their research papers which are hosted over at Wetlands Conservancy (Thanks! go and visit here: http://wetlandsconservancy.org/stewardship/beaver-tales/beaver-zine)

And if you want to make a zine, check out the Independent Publishing Resource Center in person or online! (iprc.org)

Thanks for READING!

C O N T E N T S

01Why Are We Here? Ethan Seltzer

02Travels with Beavers David Backes

03Community Builder Donette Miranda

04The Fur Desert John Whitman

05The Urban Beaver Maze Estaban Murschel

06The Romance of the Beaver Margaret Raimann

07PAC NW Scene Report Steven Rosen

08Battle of Greenway Park Spencer Byrne-Seres

09Beaver Comic Estaban Murschel

10How Beavers Change Landforms and Waterbodies James Zoeller

11 Beavers! Beavers! Beavers!

12 & more Beavers!

YES! Press ∙ Portland, Oregon ∙ 2017

YES! Press is a zine imprint owned by Kate Bingaman-Burt. It was established in 2016 as a platform to publish her drawing projects,

collaborations and hopefully perhaps an idea or two from you. Yes, the answer is...yes.