The Martinez Beaver Festival is celebrating its 16th year and like all sweet sixteens it deserves special attention. This year will be greeted with a host of your favorite bands, exhibits and projects. Children can earn beaver pond trading cards and paint their own tail. Adults can visit the many wildlife booths and get insight into beavers and the urban wildlife around them. Our silent auction has one of a kind treasures  and great deals on adventures for the whole family. Once again the amazing chalk artist Amy Gallaher Hall will be creating a beaver mural for all to see.

And don’t miss the first of its kind debut of the hit game show

“BEAVERS OF FORTUNE!” 

Spin the wheel to answer the question and win the adorable stuffed beaver of your choice! Made possible by a generous donor “Missy”.

The beaver festival is hitting its sweet 16 this year. Everyone wants something special for the occasion so don’t miss the first of its kind debut of the hit game show:

“BEAVERS OF FORTUNE!”

Spin the wheel to answer the question and win the adorable stuffed beaver of your choice! Made possible by a generous donor Missy and her mom Leslie.
Do you feel lucky?

This was a fantastic presentation on pubic opinion and urban beavers. Fun fact: Matt Guziejka went to Martinez Junior High School in 2000.

I just read the entire report about the series of unfortunate beaver events in CDFW’s pilot relocation efforts. I will have lots to say about it in the future. But for now this is by far the best part:

Source Beaver Selection

The extent of human-beaver conflicts reported each year is far greater than the number and geographic distribution of beaver family groups that can be translocated for restoration projects each year. As such, and since other beavers often readily migrate into recently vacated beaver habitat, translocation should not be considered a primary solution for resolving beaver depredation. For these reasons, as well as for the ecological benefits beavers provide to the ecosystem, the Department encourages human-beaver coexistence through implementation of non-lethal deterrents as the primary solution for depredation