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A DIFFICULT PROBLEM TO TACKLE


This week I was contacted by Andrea from Sacramento, an MD who spends her free time collecting used fishing tackle from the American River by where she lives.. Seems she had found a dead beaver that had been killed by swallowing a rusty hook. On the very same day another rehab reported the same thing with a different beaver.

She was looking for help getting the word out and general attention to the problem.

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Sad to report I found one of the beavers dead in the pond this morning. There was necrosis of the cheek and tongue and a large hook in the water nearby. I last saw her Friday morning. Can’t know what caused the injury, but I will rake out the pond this week.
Another beaver died upstream today with fishhook in the tail tethered to a large weight near Sunrise access.
The most dangerous hooks are the ones in the water tethered to logs. Join in and help clean out the hooks and line in the American River.

In addition to cleaning the creek and bank regularly she has gotten permission from the parks department to hang this sign in several places.

She is doing the lord’s work and it’s a massive problem. Not just for beavers and birds but for otters and bobcats and every living thing that passes on the shore or dives in the water.

i commended her herculean efforts and suggest she think about doing some school children presentations and enlisting some childrens artwork on the problem. People don’t always see what makes the feel hopeless.

But they see things like this:

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