Beaver News Round-up

Looks like the LA Times just realized baby beavers are adorable. They ran this video on Wednesday and wrote the following:

We’ve never before heard a baby beaver complain.

Now we can say we’ve had that strange and distinct pleasure, thanks to the good folks at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Inc. The Omaha-based center for the care of orphaned and injured wild animals took in these two cute but noisy little guys after their parents were killed in 2005.

The babies were cared for at the facility until they were old enough to be released into the wild.

We bet their caretakers missed them after their release — who wouldn’t grow attached to two adorable beaver babies? — but we suspect they didn’t miss their “ehn! ehn! ehn!” noises too much.

— Lindsay Barnett

Video: Nebraska Wildlife via YouTube

Hey I know where you can get some other adorable footage! Check out Bigonegeorgegrace and mtzbeavers on youtube! Speaking of which, I had the weird honor of being contacted by public access channel in Fort Brag this week. Turns out they wanted to run some of my video of canoeing the area in from the Mybluehouse account. I tried to sell them on beaver footage and talked about how badly the Noyo needs beavers, but they were committed to only using local footage. Well, otters will get fame, anyway. Can beavers be far behind?

In other news, our friend Mike Callahan has worked out a deal with AWI to sell his beaver management DVD for less, which I’m happy about. They want it as accessible to the public as possible and don’t want price to be prohibitive. I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear that. He also mentioned he was approached by Fur-bearer Defenders in British Columbia to do several consults, but its a bad time of year for him to get away and he didn’t think he could manage it. Hopefully they’ll get somone else.

Don’t forget there will be web changes this weekend. Fingers crossed it will all be for the good!