I was cruising beaver news the other day and found an article in the guardian about the then newly elected President Bush who was going to have a trapper in Colorado make him a special inauguration hat from patriotically slain beaver pelt. Now that shoulda made us mistrust the guy right away. Apparently PETA responded immediately to the news and wrote a persuasive (and for them, restrained) letter asking that it not happen. I couldn’t find anything about the outcome, but the story just seemed fitting to me. Doesn’t that just reflect the overall impact of this man’s presidency on the environment? To say nothing of the economy or national security…
Remember back when the media was reporting that he was the kind of candidate Americans would like to “have a beer with”? Well, I think I’ve found the perfect brew: (Come to think of it, there might be a few choice others I want to invite along…)
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=VUqsF8vbR_Q]
Beavers were seen in the am and pm shift yesterday, with a host of new appreciative watchers. Jon kayak-cleaned the creek on tuesday and was annoyed to find a plastic bag on the secondary dam the day after his cleaning. (Plastic bags are great offenders, as they blow from all over the city and often end up in the creek, and eventually at a dam.) He scrambled through the brush to haul it out to a cheering crowd and two curious kits who came to watch what was happening. The action so inspired an appreciative on-looker that he went down the other side to fetch a large gin bottle in the trench under the footbridge. Someone remarked that the beavers were very well looked after, and another said as an after thought “We should all be so lucky.”
Gotta agree with you there!
