Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at beaver central. The new header image is from the bestest card ever sent by our own stalwart champion Leslie Mills. There’s even more to be thankful for this morning. First I’m thankful to learn I was wrong in yesterday’s post. Forest News isn’t from Colorado specifically, it’s a watchdog group made of of USFS members who watch and advise forest policy in EVERY state. Wow.
I’m grateful for the California Beaver Summit and all the great learning and connections that grew out of it. I’m grateful that Ben’s fantastic book is still pushing the best kind of advancement as people learn about beavers and selfishly grateful for all the random people that seem to write me or donate to Worth A Dam because of it. I’m grateful for the Bay Nature article and that the Fairfield beavers had a kit this year. I’m grateful that beavers appeared in the nature based climate solutions and OH YEAH I’m grateful that the Human Wildlife Conflict team of CDFW wanted to meet with the Worth A Dam team and told us beavers were on their radar.
The head of the team HAD ATTENDED THE SUMMIT! They were happy to announce that the new budget had provisions for hiring TEN wildlife conflict specialists that would be divided between the regions and be trained in humane solutions for whatever depredation was most common for those areas.
AND one of their team was looking SPECIFICALLY at Beaver DEPREDATION permits to understand how they’re being used and misused!!! And (here’s the icing on the cake) The person who is doing it recognized CHERYL because she used to be a volunteer at Bird Rescue many years ago.
I’m still pinching myself from that meeting which we were lucky to get Riley and Joe Wheaton to join with. Honestly it’s been a packed beaver year, even if Covid did continue to terrorize us all. Jon is thankful to have had his booster shot yesterday and that means we’re all caught up to date.
Have your own day of Thankfulness and let’s hope that next year will be EVEN better for beavers and all of us,
One comment on “BEAVER THANKFUL DAY”
Mike
November 25, 2021 at 3:21 pmAwesome! Good work! I hope the message spreads!Photoshop protocol