Restoring streams after wildfire and subsequent debris flows is possible and essential to our future. However, the scale of restoration must address the scale of degradation and simultaneously build in resilience to future disturbance. Humans are unlikely to achieve effective and resilient scaling of this magnitude and complexity alone. Partnering with native North American beavers, Castor canadensis, the original freshwater ecosystems engineer is well proven. However, many streams cannot support industrious and highly adaptive beavers following massive wildfire and debris flows on top of human legacy degradation and simplification. Many streams couldn’t support beavers before recent large fires due to pervasive simplification of streams that rarely provide adequate beaver essential resources anymore such as: deep enough water to evade predation, dense enough deciduous vegetation to provide reliable year round food resources, other beavers nearby to fulfill social needs, and tolerance of their presence from humans. All of these challenges can be mitigated, most of the time… simply, affordably, and efficiently to expand beaver benefits and sustainable populations across our watersheds. Methow Okanogan Beaver Project (est. 2008) will share case studies showing effective beaver-based stream restoration and essential beaver coexistence strategies to accelerate and scale restoration of wildfire impacted streams and build resilience back into our watersheds in partnership with beavers and people. People and beavers working together will accomplish far more and much faster than humans can achieve alone. Our vast watersheds supporting so many diverse and threatened biological communities in the Pacific Northwest need us to scale up and accelerate restoration with built in resiliency as only beavers and people can do.