This may be the funniest headline I’ve ever come across and had the displeasure of reading. All the stereotypes are firmly represented in the article, it’s an fairly tightly written piece of disinformation, someone should be very proud. I thought you’d appreciate the reminder that our work is not yet completed. In my younger days I once wrote “protecting salmon from beavers is like protecting banks from money. It’s like protecting Whole Foods from Vegetarians, or protecting Stanford from bequeaths or protecting Steve Young from footballs.”
I truly used to be even more sarcastic than I am now.
Ecologist concerned beaver dam on Langley creek bad for salmon
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.
Marlow Pellatt lives near the creek, around the area of 96th Avenue and 208th Street, and he only recently noticed that beavers that thrown up a sizable dam, one revealed by the The dam, not far from the culvert where Munday creek runs to the west under 208th Street, stretches around 30 feet or more across the ravine floor. (more…)