While in residence at Harvard Forest as a Bullard Fellow in 2025-2026, I will be completing a book project which braids first-hand accounts of tracking eastern coyote families in the greater Quabbin watershed with an environmental history of eastern coyotes’ arrival in beaver country across the Northeast. “Keystone Kin” is focused on the migration of coyotes, the return of beavers and their entangled adaptation to the recovering forests of New England. This book project centers traditional ecological knowledge and place-based research, but also transcends disciplinary boundaries, drawing on recent research in evolutionary biology, ecology, and paleoecology to unravel the story of coyote and beavers’ remarkable historical and ongoing adaptation to climate catastrophes and colonization. At Harvard Forest, I will pursue historical research in the archives while doing land-based research on the particular coyotes and beavers who inhabit and travel through Harvard Forest wetlands.