Remind me to care about something easier next time. Like Koala bears. Or pandas. Something really cute but very endangered and hard to see with no chance of bothering anybody. Yesterday we got word that the beaver dam had been cut. Kind of a specific cut. Like a clean chunk taken out that let lots of water get away.
Water they won’t get back for months.
So of course we checked it out and asked around. They are in the process of ‘goating-grazing’ the area to get rid of the grass. Once again I am left with a mountain of questions and a nagging worry, Like some giant beaver Clue game that is no fun to play and I’m condemned to repeat over and over. Was it Sr flood control with the shovel in the creek? Or was it the Capt goat herder with his staff in the water? Or maybe even Mr, Target employee with his pitchfork in the parking lot?
Of course it matters because of how likely it is to be repeated if the beavers repair things. At the moment there is no way to know. Who ever it is it’s is rotten that this happened now. No one has seen the beavers in 5 days and who knows if they’ll stick around to fix the damage. They might just decide the hell with pleasant hill and find a better place to hang. But I’m guessing they stay. Experience has taught us that urban beavers tend to be so happy not to be killed that they stick around a while.
Gosh it was a beautiful dam. One that I think was the work of more than one beaver. And a beaver with some notches in his belt. Look at that curve.
