There has been way too much beaver news lately. Usually I keep a file with a few relevant articles just in case I run out of things to say that day, but now the file is overflowing. I’m marching through and randomly deleting to lighten the load. Let’s try to get through five things today, okay? Starting with this fun short from New York.
I’m so old I remember when New York boasted about its first returned beaver and named it Jose Serrano after the congressman who cleaned up that particular waterway. It was 2010. Remember?
This lovely image was posted by Penny Meyers
Last Frame: Another Day At The Lodge
“Winter in Minnesota often has us spending a lot of time indoors, so on a nice January day, I took a walk at Dunton Locks County Park in Becker County, about a half-hour from my home,” recalls photographer Penny Meyers. “I came upon this beaver sitting on the snow-covered ice near the edge of a pond. I watched for about an hour as it occasionally dove through a hole in the ice to retrieve twigs and roots and then sit in the snow to enjoy the fruits of its labor.
Brr that’s one chilly photographer AND beaver! We had things much easier in Martinez, I can tell you. Thanks Penny!
There are a couple ‘firsts’ I’ve been putting off. The beaver emoji and the worlds largest beaver statue to name a few.
The world’s largest beaver statue, a giant smurf and a kissing couple sculpture: These landmarks will be lit up for the ‘Global Greening’
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, the National Theatre in London and the Smurf Statue in Brussels will all go green this year for the first time to mark St Patrick’s Day.
New additions include the Giant Beaver Sculpture in Beaverlodge, Canada – the largest beaver sculpture in the world – and the National Museum of Qatar.
The national museum of QATAR will have a giant green beaver sculpture for St Patrick’s Day? I mean a country that never had beavers making a giant statue of a beaver for the national holiday of another country that never had beavers? I almost don’t know where to begin. But sure, okay. Here’s the Emoji by the way.
New Emojis Coming in 2020 Include Polar Bear, Bubble Tea, Teapot, Seal, Feather, Dodo, Black Cat, Magic Wand and More
Apple will adopt the new Unicode 13 emoji characters at some point in 2020, likely in the fall as an update to iOS 14. Apple last year introduced Unicode 12 emojis in the iOS 13.2 update that was released in October.
Thank goodness this gaping hole in virtual communication will be repaired, I’m sure you’re thinking. Me too!
Now onto the most important news. Remember that the proposed rule change for beaver depredation was going to be considered last friday? Well they did the same thing as Cinderella in ‘Into the woods” which is they decided not to decide. They didn’t rule to accept the recommendation and send it to Fish and Wildlife, and they didn’t turn it down either, they decided to let their boss decide.
So the rule change is on Chuck Bonham’s desk as we speak.
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