Game Camera Footage of Beaver-Impacted Streams in the Northwest Arctic, 2023-2024

### Access
All files can be accessed and downloaded from the directory via: [http://arcticdata.io/data/10.18739/A29P2W79V](http://arcticdata.io/data/10.18739/A29P2W79V).

### Overview
Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic project focuses on establishing field sites at tundra beaver ponds to study the implications of beaver engineering on ecosystems. We established game camera sites around beaver-impacted streams across the Seward Peninsula, Baldwin Peninsula and Lower Noatak River areas from January 2023 to August 2024. We aimed to collect information regarding ice formation phenology, overflow dynamics, and wildlife interactions. 23 cameras were deployed adjacent to beaver dams, and 8 were deployed at "control" sites in a parts of streams that remained unimpacted by beavers. Most cameras were set in a hybrid setting, collecting images through timelapse and trigger settings. Other cameras were just in trigger mode. We used three brands of cameras, and each brand exhibited unique symptoms that led to many different malfunctions. Nevertheless, the data archived captured important seasonal events like ice-up, break-up, green-up, and fall senescence. Cameras also captured a variety of wildlife, including red foxes, moose, brown bears, porcupine, martens, willow ptarmigan, green-winged teal, and, of course, beavers.