Every day, from here to there
Beaver things are everywhere.

Glancing up and down the pacific coast you realize the world has definitely changed. Oh I’m not saying the tide is turning or its a new day for beavers or anything inspiring like that, but there are sure a lot more voices in the theater than there used to be.

Why Metro Vancouver is planting trees near the Meadow (beavers, it’s because of beavers)

As beavers chow down trees in Crippen Park, they plug streams, build dams and reshape the area. “It’s part of a natural process and [the resulting] wetlands are really great,” says Robyn Worcester, a natural resource management specialist at Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. The problem comes when an area flooded is just grass, like the Meadow. “There wasn’t anywhere for the riparian edge — the plants and trees along the edge of the stream — to expand.” (more…)