Sometimes there are outright attacks and torpedos you can see coming like yesterdays ecologist blaming beavers for blocking salmon. But sometime things are more subtle. Like an aunt who tells your mother at Thanksgiving that your unmarried sister is a pregnant but adds “Bless her heart” at the end of it.
This is definitely a “Bless her heart” kind of article.
Slowing Down Streams for Salmon
It’s late fall, and coho salmon are seesawing their strong bodies upstream — their flashy silver sides stained a dark maroon as the fish prepare to spawn.
With climate change turning much of the West warmer and drier, every drop of water matters for these coho, along with the other four species of Pacific Ocean salmon (chinook, pink, chum, and sockeye) that breed and hatch young in rivers and streams. (more…)
A Langley man is hoping that a little help from a local streamkeeping group can allow salmon to migrate up Walnut Grove’s Munday Creek again, after beavers set up shop with a sizable dam.
The Human Beaver Coexistence Fund (HBCF) will educate the public about the benefits of coexisting with beavers and provide resources and financial support to address human-beaver conflict using nonlethal management strategies.
“Beavers are the only animals, other than humans, who will create entirely new ecosystems for their own use,” he writes. “And often, like humans, once they have depleted an area’s resources, they will abandon their holdings and move on.” 
