Vegetation restoration projects throughout the American Southwest have yielded positive outcomes for degraded desert streams, including the Mojave River restoration at Afton Canyon in the Eastern Mojave Desert (Egan, 1999; 2016; Bunn et al., 2003). Although rare, beaver translocation has demonstrated success as a passive desert river restoration strategy at the Price and San Rafael Rivers in eastern Utah and the San Pedro River in Arizona (Soykan et al., 2009; Doden, 2021; Sandbach, 2023). The success of translocated beaver populations is determined by mortality rate and site fidelity, as dictated by habitat quality (Colleen & Gibson, 2000; McKinstry & Anderson, 2002; Petro et al., 2015; Morris et al., 2021; Bilby & Moseby, 2023). In deserts, beaver habitat is restricted to riparian forests (Rutherford, 1964; Bee et al., 1981; Welch et al., 1993). The restoration project at Afton Canyon has facilitated the return of native willow and cottonwood populations and beaver sightings have increased (Egan, 1999; 2016; MDRCD, 2022). It is likely that a combination of natural beaver recolonization and translocation would facilitate further habitat restoration.