On Friday I attended the second pre-planning meeting for beaver in the Alameda Watershed. I was surprised that all kinds of folk including EBRP and Flood Control and Audubon can’t wait until they are given beavers of their very own.
To love, honor. and cherish. Seriously. Mayor Schroeder would be spinning in his cadillac. There must have been 40 people at the meeting. Molly Alves and Valerie Cook were there to talk about what needed to happen before a beaver reintroduction could be granted. I presented lessons learned in Martinez and everyone was jealous that we had them first.
It was so weird.
Valerie Cook commented that my slides were fantastic and Molly said I was inspiring and she was sorry she couldn’t attend the festival because it was field season.
No one mentioned my recent bear-eating beaver letter.
Honestly it was so bizarre I commented afterwards that it was kind of like being in college and everyone ran around terrified of getting pregnant and then meeting up with you friends in your thirties and all they could talk about was trying to have a baby.
