Okay,. I tried to give you one normal beaver day yesterday. Complete with woes and trapping. But obviously the beaver good news Gods aren’t finished impressing us yet, so I better let them work their will upon us.
Starting with this update on the Center for biological diversity’s lawsuit against wildlife 
services for trapping beaver in salmon habitat. Say what you like about CBD stealing people’s thunder.
But consider this THUNDER.
USDA Kills Thousands of Beavers
Every year, an arm of the US Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services kills millions of native species, including gray wolves, coyotes, beavers, prairie dogs, and even red-winged blackbirds. Now the Center for Biological Diversity is bringing an Endangered Species Act lawsuit against Wildlife Services over its shooting and trapping of more than a thousand beavers in California every year. Collette Adkins, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, joined Host Steve Curwood to explain why Wildlife Services’ program of beaver-killing is harming endangered salmon and steelhead in California that depend on beaver-created habitats.
Interesting show. I particularly liked the part where Collette says that CBD has fought this issue successfully in Oregon and now in California and they would like to take it NATION-WIDE.
Not that there are salmon nation-wide to protect mind you, but I’m sure there’s some endangered thing in every single beaver habitat in the country that could serve the same function. Some endangered skink or Towhee that relies on damp beaver habitat to reproduce or find a mate.
Good luck with that CBD. I have every faith in you.
At nearly the same time a second story showed up on my wire, this one a fairly groovy interview with Rob Hopkins and Ben Goldfarb about his amazing book and its amazing subject matter.
My favorite part of this interview, (and there are several), is towards the end where Ben is asked about the effect of his book. He tells a story of a rancher in Utah who read it and loved it and then bought copies for all his ranching friends so they could read it too!
I could listen to success stories like this ALL DAY!
I know I’ve just given you nearly an hour of auditory homework, but its worth it, Whenever people talk about beavers you can be sure to read about it here. And when they talk SMARTLY about beavers, well, then everyone wins.
