This week I was contacted by Andrea from Sacramento, an MD who spends her free time collecting used fishing tackle from the American River by where she lives.. Seems she had found a dead beaver that had been killed by swallowing a rusty hook. On the very same day another rehab reported the same thing with a different beaver.
She was looking for help getting the word out and general attention to the problem.
Waterbird Habitat Project
In addition to cleaning the creek and bank regularly she has gotten permission from the parks department to hang this sign in several places.
She is doing the lord’s work and it’s a massive problem. Not just for beavers and birds but for otters and bobcats and every living thing that passes on the shore or dives in the water.
i commended her herculean efforts and suggest she think about doing some school children presentations and enlisting some childrens artwork on the problem. People don’t always see what makes the feel hopeless.
But they see things like this:
