If I ever doubt that we are in a different beaver world than the one I grew up in, remind me to look at this photo. This is Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, It was posted by Ben himself so I know its real.

Ben Goldfarb:

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) displays his impeccable taste in environmental literature. Next up: a senate subcommittee on beaver restoration?

Do you know what this means? It means Michael Bennet knows about Martinez and our beavers and ME!

Closer to home KPFA ran a nice beaver interview yesterday with some local champions.

Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature.