A week to go. The banners are hung in the park and the auction items are tagged and registered and safely in our volunteers care. I guess this thing is really happening, which makes this all the sweeter timing. Make sure you listen to this short but wonderful report.

In the face of climate change, beavers are engineering a resistance

Emily Fairfax is one of the paper’s authors and an ecohydrologist at California State University Channel Islands. She has become one of the nation’s most prominent beaver experts, and has been studying the Boulder County site for years.

“The beavers here are very industrious,” Faifax said on a cool spring afternoon, knee-deep in one of their ponds. “They’ve built a lot of dams per square area. You just get these totally ridiculous water slides everywhere and waterfalls. You can’t even tell where one dam starts and the other one stops, because they’re all going at weird, wonky angles against each other. It’s totally bizarre.”

Fantastic report. And it’s wonderful to talk about beaver dam complexes.