Our friends at the Sierra Club put a nice shout-out to the beavers in this month’s “Yodeler“, the newspaper of the SF chapter. The wildlife chair, Terry Preston, is as busy as the proverbial beaver, but has made a huge comittment to our beavers and is working hard to garner their attention and protection. Thanks Terry for inviting me to the board meeting back in February and for getting your members on the beaver-saving bandwagon. I have already received several emails from new supporters who read about the beavers in this recent issue. Hmmm, you’d almost think there was some innate relationship between Martinez and the Sierra Club….
Day: May 3, 2008
I suppose that answer all depends on what outcome you’re looking for. If it’s grant monies from the Coastal Conservancy, it’s a creek. If it’s to marginalize the value of the habitat surrounding the beaver lodge and dam, it’s a drainage ditch.
I can’t seem to recall the last time a drainage ditch or run off supported the following: bats, beavers, crayfish, carp, tulles, turtles, mallards, muskrats, otters, egrets, herons, song birds, swallows and geese.
Yesterday I ran into a woman out on the lawn adjacent to the primary dam mulling over plans for the Alhambra Creek Restoration project. Perhaps I should have corrected her and told her that the creek was just a ditch.
Linda Meza
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