Tuesday night was beaver night in the city council in Oakley. Their meeting started with a presentation from Flood Control about the pesky beavers that built the dam in Marsh Creek and were subsequently shot. They assessed the dam as raising the water by a whopping 7 inches and restricting their 50 year flood plan for a particular segment of creek 400 feet upstream of the dam. You can watch the whole thing here, and the presentation is the very first part after the pledge of allegiance, but this was my favorite part of the meeting.
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It’s nice to know Martinez made some ripples in the world, although clearly the head of flood control thinks beavers live IN the dam. Sign. Our work is never done.
Yesterday a new buddy Jorge Echegaray, on the beaver management forum posted the first beaver booklet released in Spain explaining to landowners about their new odd flat-tailed neighbor. I took a look through and thought you’d be interested. My retired spanish-teaching sister very kindly translated the chapters for me which get me very interested.
Robin grabbed this as her favorite photo for obvious reasons.
I was intrigued by the range of questions, especially ¿Para qué sirven los castores? (What good are beavers?) and the even more intriguing ¿Son los castores un icono de conservación y educación ambiental?
Are beavers and icon of conservation and environmental education?
Let me save you some time gentlemen. YES. Yes they are.
