Book excerpt: This report is the culmination of work funded by the Adaptive Management Initiative to share the experiences and lessons learned regarding the use of beaver for restoration and climate change adaptation in a selection of American states: California, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. [...] Further, there has been a surge of interest on the part of land owners, biologists, non-profit organizations and agency personnel on the use of beavers as a tool to improve watershed resilience and ecosystem function in the face of climate change in both Alberta and Montana. [...] The purpose of this report is to share the experiences and lessons learned regarding the use of beaver for restoration and climate change adaptation in a selection of American states. [...] In the mid-1920s the California Department of Fish and Wildlife did recognize the benefits of beaver and started a relocation program. [...] In terms of potential beaver translocation projects, the WATER Institute is trying to determine the nexus of where there are large holdings of land with minimal potential for human-beaver conflict and where the management of land is not at odds with what beaver do to modify the environment.