The jury is still out on beavers in Connecticut. The nutmeg state is characteristically never too excited to see the little rascals, but there are some among them that know of the good that they do. Remember when Ben Goldfarb started writing Eager he was living in Connecticut! Let’s hope he talked a lot to his neighbors.
RLT Sets Program on Beavers
ROXBURY — The Roxbury Land Trust is sponsoring a two-part program on beavers.
Nick Barnett will give a talk, Industrious Beavers, at 4 p.m. Sunday, September 22 at the Roxbury Town Hall. In the second program, Mr. Barnett will lead a walk at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 28 at the Roxbury Land Trust’s Baldwin Preserve to learn more about beavers’ natural habitats.
That sounds promising right? People talking about beavers is mostly better than people not talking about beavers.
Mr. Barnett, a board member of the West Hartford Land Trust, will focus his talk on beavers’ engineering skills, their behavior, personalities and natural history, and the environmental impact of their industriousness.
Their personalities?
I’m just trying to imagine whether this is a translation of another word that makes more sense? (And I do mean translation, because local papers have lost so much money that some some news is truly outsourced to Korea or some place cheaper.) I guess dogs have personalities right? I think Hope Ryden Lily Pond certainly saw enough of them to know. Or do you think he really does have something to say about beaver personalities that I don’t know about. Maybe some personally perceptive skills or beaver Rorschachs just never paid attention to?
I’m curious. If beavers have personalities, can they have personality disorders?
This trained psychologist sat with our beavers every day for 11 years and I feel I know relatively little of their personalities to this day. They tended to keep those cards pretty close to the vest if you take my meaning. Mom was patient. She did communicate that, She put up with people watching and eventually let us pick her up in a dog crate when she was sick. And Dad was less patient. Does that count? I don’t think I can flesh it out more than that. Certainly not enough to give a whole talk about it?
Maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention?
The walk, which is moderate and relatively flat, will look at the beaver habitat as well as for other creatures and species found only at beaver ponds, like the baskettail dragonfly.
Well that sounds better anyway. No word yet on the personalities of the dragonflies? I’m pretty curious to find out.
And on the twentieth day of September, she celebrated another completed circle around the sun, this time launching into the year that Enos Mills was when he died. Fingers crossed it’s not unlucky for beaver fans!
This GIF sent to my by a beaver buddy must be a very good sign of the many bright days to come, right?
