Yesterday was amazing. We met Amy in the park and she was delighted about the space and immediately kicked off her shoes to pace it off. She’s going to start early friday morning just so she gets more than half done the day before, and leave the beavers to finish up while people watch on the day. Amy is exactly like you’d imagine her, friendly, frank, and fun! She was so excited to be helping we were sure we were in a dream and never wanted to wake up.
She even said, gosh there are SO many negative ideas about beavers! Why is that? And told me she had just done some work for a large southern state client who had a huge nature reserve with rivers. Since he was interested in preserving the land and restoring wetlands of course she had asked about beavers – and he said quickly “No! Fish and game told us to kill them right away!”
Apparently they were told that beavers would dam up the streams and prevent OTTERS from getting over the dam.
Amy had the good sense to be shocked by this and was now joyful to be part of an event that celebrated beavers instead of lying about them!
Later in the day April and Alana Ludlow dropped off the sandwich chalk boards they had helped design over the weekend. The boards will be in a sign near Amy to explain what she’s working on during the festival. Didn’t they do a great job?
In case you don’t recognize them, here’s a much younger reminder four years ago after they had seen the Nature Documentary by Jari Osbourne.
