The San Francisco Estuary Partnership does remarkable work coordinating and educating partners around the East Bay. They were the first significant friend our beavers made in the real world and they are how I met Lisa Viani who was then the editor of their magazine and eventually reporter Joe Eaton and the famous Ann Riley who was special consultant of the SF Waterboard. Ann eventually brought me to 
Oakland for a very important talk to other board members. which introduced us to the watershed stewards of Americorp who helped our festival for years and worked to replant trees at the creek.
Well the SFEP started a creative artwork award this year to honor the creeks and raise awareness and I thought, HEY who on earth deserves an award more than the VERY HARDWORKING ARTIST Amy Hall who flies in for 24 hours ever year without pay and creates an unbelievable beaver mural in the middle of a crowded public event that washes away afterwards.
Creative Environmental Award
The Friends of the San Francisco Estuary announced a call for artists to submit work for the State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference, a local conference showcasing the science and need for action to protect the San Francisco Estuary.
So I nominated her.
And we were notified this week that she WON! 2nd prize with a cool 200 dollars and a mention at their big upcoming conference. Amy said she can’t make that date work but arranged for her very sweet father to come
accept it in her honor. Amy is very pleased and even though 2nd prize kind of reminds me of this and she deserves WAY more its a nice symbol both of how hard she’s worked and how important beavers are to creeks.
So HURRAY for Amy and HURRAY for the SFEP and thanks Rusty Cohn for noticing that her and her husband sometimes came to the Napa creek to see the beavers which gave me the nerve to ask her in the first place!
