Nice conference call yesterday about the big event. Bob Rust is going to be manning his beaver-bike outside the theater. The organic women’s chorus will be singing as people enter, then I’ll present on our neighborhood beavers and Kate will present on beavers in California and then Jari Osborne’s wonderful film will run.  It should be a beaver night to remember.

There’s a short write-up about Bob’s beaver-mobile in the Tribune this morning, with an unaccountable photo beside the restrooms and the trash can.

Beaver Fever …

This beavermobile (for lack of a better term) was a hit scooting around at the 9th annual Beaver Festival on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. The theme of this year’s free festival was “Ecosystem Engineers,” and featured over 40 environmental exhibits, live music, and lots of fun learning activities for people of all ages. For more information on the Martinez beavers, visit MartinezBeavers.org. (JOHN GRUBKA / Courtesy)

But before the beaver mobile can appear for its second performance in Vallejo and before I can fill the big screen with the Martinez Beavers, I have to return to Placer to coax. cajole, badger them into thinking about beaver management differently.  I’m restructuring that talk to begin with the news that Placer kills 7 times more beavers than any other county in the state which costs a lot of money and eliminates a lot of fish and wildlife. How’s that for a ‘hook’?

h/t to our friends at the Sierra Wildlife Coalition for this. Heh-heh.