Yesterday was data drop day at beaver central. We are up to 798 registered for the beaver summit. Not bad for a state that never thought about having a beaver event before. 541 are from California but there are people from 26 states attending an four countries.

I wish we had 10 more state park attendees and 20 more waterboard people but it’s not bad first effort. There are also hundreds of various non profit attendees and lets hope they hold some feet to the fire so that those that can’t attend this time will learn in the future,

In the meantime there was a darling/terrifying story yesterday from Canada of a beaver turning up in the subway and making rescue. Poor little disperser who tried to use public transit.

Beaver wandering inside Toronto subway station prompts rush hour closure

TORONTO — An entrance to a Toronto subway station was temporarily closed due to a wandering beaver. According to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the beaver strolled into Royal York Subway Station on Bloor Street, near the Humber Marshes, early Thursday morning.

As a result, the TTC temporarily closed the Grenview entrance to the station “due to an animal in distress.” The station entrance has since reopened.

You have to love the Canadians for closing the station. I don’ even want to think about what would have happened to a beaver who wandered onto BART.