It’s much harder to actually solve the problem than to just blame beavers and hope for the best. I mean you have to first study it’s origin, which takes precious resources and brain cells. Then you have to think about the solution and that might require actually changing your behavior which is never fun. You can see why blaming beavers is easier.

But Washington isn’t doing it.

In the Duwamish Watershed, Communities Respond as Coho Salmon Face a New Threat

Every year, salmon journey from the open waters of the North Pacific, pass through estuaries along the coast, and swim upriver to spawn in the freshwater streams and creeks in which they were born. Yet across the western coast of North America, coho salmon are dying in large numbers as they return to urban watersheds. In West Seattle, a team of citizen scientists are surveying salmon to understand how many are affected. (more…)