Well this was nice to see, but I just feel I have to mention that UNRELOCATED beavers also fight fires. You know, the kind that get to stay right where they choose and not be trapped and put into a box for a month while you try to design your forest just the way you want it.
Sheesh.
I have very few talents at the moment and am still working up to be able to limp successfully on my formerly broken foot, but this made me very very happy.
I was thinking of this song I must have learned in choir and thought how wonderful it would be to have a beaver song that worked as a round because all those good things happen at once in a beaver pond.
By Heidi Perryman
Beavers working; beavers building dams
Water saved for you and me
Helping streams and making habitat
Let them be
Frogs and salmon
Birds and Otters come to see
We help flooding
We slow fires
We clean waters
And we do it for free.
Now practice this because I’d like us all to sing it in round at the CDFW beaver restoration meeting today at 2:00. No? Well here’s the link: I was thinking we present it during public comment?
May 25, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Join the Zoom Webinar(opens in new tab); Passcode: 930661
Join via phone: (216) 706-7075 (USA Toll) OR (866) 390-1828 (Toll-free); Conference code: 663759
The informational meeting will provide a broad overview of CDFW’s Beaver Restoration Program, including its purpose, objectives, tasks, and timelines. Additionally, the meeting will address the implementation of pilot and future beaver translocation projects, development of a beaver co-existence toolkit, and policy updates. The meeting will conclude with a public question and answer session. Future public workshops will be scheduled to discuss human-beaver coexistence strategies and the process for developing and requesting beaver translocation projects.
Well, that was fun. I’m having a hard time getting images to upload so you may just need to see for yourself.
So tomorrow we meet up with the Arts Association and put the beaver festivals over the ages in the display case in the city hall. We spent the day gathering treasures together and realized we have a lot of beaver trinkets from years passed. Here’s hoping we take the world by storm tomorrow. If you have time over the next month you should stop in and see it.
It represents many dam good times!
Some images are just too good to resist.
