And on the morning when the deaths from the camp fire hit 42 we gathered to talk about beavers and water because that’s what we do even when horrible things are happening all over our state, We had two family members from England call to check on us yesterday because from far away its easy to assume everything is burning.

California needs water and water doesn’t burn.

This was on NPR yesterday and it was very close to being a story about what beavers might have do if we let them. Call it a beaver man·qué article and lets listen.

Our Turn At This Earth: The Beaver Creeks

Just because its named “BEAVER CREEK” and has dried up every year since the beavers were trapped out in the fur trade, that doesn’t mean anything, right? I mean why would a person writing a story about lost waterways particularly jump to that crazy conclusion.

Beavers watered the west. We killed the beavers and moved into the places they made lush for us. Then we wondered why they stopped being lush. I’m sure it was just a coincidence.