Never mind that old silly royal wedding, there’s fresh new beaver romances to pay attention to. Tell me that this story doesn’t have all the passion, intrigue and challenge of any new couple starting out! As a bonus we get to see Greg Lewallen on camera who was my editor on the restoration guidebook but I never beheld before. Be patient the video takes a while to load but it’s worth the wait.

Beaver pair reintroduced into the wild after

developing fondness during rehabilitation

There now. Don’t you feel better? I thought it was funny how they emphasize that the male would be finding them a burrow as soon as possible. Such interesting projection! Our stalwart female built all the lodges herself and never had a stitch of help! I’m quite sure they have zero data for their assertion that it’s the males job to find them a nice place to live. But I wish those kids all the luck in the world on their new life!

Yesterday the universe had so much fun with me! Comcast decided to migrate my email to a new platform so I had zero email all day and spent hours on the phone trying to get it repaired. As luck would have it it was the same day Steve Dunsky and Sarah Koenisberg were finishing up the details on whether there’s going to be a premier of her Beaver Believer film two days before the festival at the Empress Theater in Vallejo. So I actually don’t know. But I’m still hopeful. I will keep you posted.

 My email is fixed now anyway, so yeah! This story made me smile despite my troubles. There but for the grace of god go I.

Woman charged over sabotaged beaver traps at Komoka park

 

Holly Pepper was getting ready to take her dog for walk when she saw a conservation officer approaching her house.

Pepper immediately knew why the official from the Ministry of Natural Resources was paying a visit to her London home on May 10. Almost a month earlier, Pepper was walking her dog Cash, a seven-year-old labrador mix, through the

trails at Komoka Park when she saw a dead muskrat in a metal beaver trap in one of the park’s ponds.

Pepper started looking around the water and found four more of the deadly traps.

But it was the ministry that had hired a contractor to set a dozen of the traps around the ponds – the first time it has been done at sprawling park west of London – to kill beavers blamed for damming the area, causing high water levels that affected the installation of a municipal sewage and drainage system.

After confessing to the conservation officer about her role in trashing the traps, Pepper was issued a ticket for interfering with lawful trapping, an offence under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.

Seven beavers were killed during the trapping that ran from February until the end of April, a ministry spokesperson said.

No, silly, it wasn’t some free-lance sicko who set those traps Holly, it was a hired official sicko who was actually paid with your hard-earned tax dollars. There now, don’t you feel better?

Poor Holly, I just want you to know if you decide to fight this Worth A Dam has your back. If you need protestors at your trial we’ll put out some alerts. And if it turns out  you go all the way to the big house don’t worry – we’ll send you a beaver cake with a file in it.