Just in case you wonder whether beavers are important to the imaginations of children or adults….here’s some food for thought.
There’s no doubt, people love beavers, celebrate beavers, enjoy beavers, and incidentally, fall in love over beavers.
Month: August 2011
Meet Joe Cannon & Amanda Parrish from the Lands Council in Washington. Amanda is the Director of the Beaver Project and Joe is its Senior Ecologist. They came to the Lands Council as Americorp volunteers and now are golden employees running a prestigious program that California needs to copy. Together they run an all expense paid relocation resort program for beavers in Washington. I met them in Oregon at the State of the Beaver Conference where they presented on their community outreach programs and work with the public. (Amanda likes making candy dams with children which is a delicious way to learn ecology!) They had planned to come down for the beaver festival, but missed it by ten days. Instead they will come tonight for a meet and greet and get to sit in on the Worth A Dam post-mortem of the event.
Tonights conversation should be fascinating! No word yet from Brock on how yesterday’s capital Coho meeting went, I’ll keep you posted.
My my my, Lambtown has a beaver problem! The beavers are blocking the culverts near their lovely pond and flooding the roads near some property owners. The city has carefully weighed all its options, including drone attacks and giving the roads back to the property owners so it would be their problem not the city’s (see see Ledyard v. ‘Last Tag’ 2004 CT law). They’re at a loss for what to do besides go to the papers and wring their civic hands. Apparently they’ve had absolutely no success with those new fangled “beaver deceivers”.
Really? Those usually work, let’s check it out, maybe something’s clogged.
Ahhh I see the problem. That isn’t a Beaver Deceiver! A Beaver Deceiver is a trapezoidal fence with four sides and a floor at least 12 feet in diameter that keeps beavers from building in culverts. What you have here is a “People Deceiver“, which is a haphazard design using wire and tubes in any old fashion to convince gullible property owners that they are solving the problem when they are simply adorning it. Common mistake. Easily remedied. I’m glad we’ve had this talk.
Fortunately you’re in Connecticut so that means that you’re in range of Skip Hilliker who can come out and actually solve your problem for you. Last night I wrote John Hadidian and Laura Simon of the Humane Society and they’re already at work on getting him in contact with the right folks. No need to thank me. It’s what I do.
Beaver friend Brock Dolman sent these characters out yesterday as a bubble contest asking for dialogue. Of course I obliged. The hearing starts at 10 am, so wish him and beavers luck!
BEAVER FESTIVAL XVI
DONATE
Beaver Alphabet Book
TREE PROTECTION
BAY AREA PODCAST
Beaver Interactive: Click to view
LASSIE INVENTS BDA
URBAN BEAVERS
LASSIE AND BEAVERS
Ten Years
The Beaver Cheat Sheet
Restoration
RANGER RICK
Educate & Engage
