One thing I never quite get used to (even thought I should) Is that other people – people I do not even know – read this website. I am always surprised to get a comment or link from someone I never met. Why, just the other day someone commented on the “Frequently asked questions”sites that the information provided was “rubbish” and that beavers did so live in the dam!
I’m guessing they had personally dynamited their dam to kill their beavers and then seen no more beavers so of course it worked! I couldn’t help it. I had to reply that this was a fact I was certain of and insist it was true.
The internet is a very interesting place. Sometimes like an busy international train station and sometimes like a nearly empty bus station at night.
Yesterday a member of the Pokeberry Creek Wetlands commented on the hurricane article which was a blast from the past because I had almost forgotten the story of the Chatam county North Carolina neighbors who wanted to protect the wetland near their homes last april I should have remembered because their lovely website boasted one of my all time favorite photos.
Even more surprising was the ‘ping back’ from a site called “Your Northwest Forests” which had linked to our beaver hat activity and included our site under their “for more information” section. Which I guess makes sense. 
We do have a LOT of experience doing kids activities that teach about beavers. And I do, after all, have a doctorate in child psychology BUT say what you like. There was afact about the YNF link that surprised me very, very much.
Source information: Forest Features highlight a new Pacific Northwest species (or sometimes, a family, order, kingdom, or genus) each month as part of the USDA Forest Service – Pacific Northwest Region’s regional youth engagement strategy.
I guess when the youth engagement part of the Forest Service links to you, you know you’re doing something right!
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