Congratulations to our good beaver friends and favorite Canadians Jim and Judy Atkinson of Port Moody, B.C. Last night they received the 2018 environmental award at the Civic dinner for their tireless work to help beavers, birds and bears!
This is especially timely because the city is in the middle of an election cycle right now, and candidates are trying to look like they are doing the right thing by making friends with them. Which is good because the DFO is still rejecting all the science from NOAA and wants to rip out the beaver dams to help the passage of their poor, disabled salmon that can’t make it over.
Our heroes have been working at top speeds trying to talk sense into anyone that will listen, and quite a few that won’t, which is exhausting. This award helps remind them of the incredible difference they are making. Of course, it still won’t guarantee everyone will listen – but it surely can’t hurt.
Congratulations on the much deserved recognition of your hard work! Here’s a reminder of part of their journey.
Thursday, Sept. 27 | 7:00 pm | OREGON FILM PREMIERE
The Beaver Believers tells the 
urgent and whimsical story of an unlikely cadre of activists – a biologist, a hydrologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a psychologist, and a hairdresser – who share a common vision: restoring the North American Beaver, that most industrious, ingenious, furry little engineer, to the watersheds of the American West.
Speaking of friends in high places, Sarah Koenigsberg is eagerly awaiting the film festival premier in Portland next week of her film on beavers and climate change. (You might remember that parts of this were filmed at the 2012 beaver festival!) Well as she’s been promoting it on facebook the alerts have been taken down. She recently received word that “they are “not authorized to promote posts about subjects of political content or national importance.”
Which of course beavers are.
See after facebook’s Russian bot fiasco they are trying to keeping all sides happy by hurting liberals (or anyone that mentions climate change) too. So do your part to combat global warming, punish Mark Zuckerberg and reject stupid false equivalence self-defense and SHARE THIS POST with all your Oregon friends.
It’s the least we beaver-believers can do.
