Lory came back from her Alaska trek this weekend, and brought lovely photos of her adventures. She had a nice meeting with Bob Armstrong and Mary Willson who worked together to produce the beavers of Mendenhall Glacier book. She was a little sad for the hardworking beavers, since volunteers have been avidly removing dams every time they’re built for the past three years. Wow. What a battle of wills! I bet I know whose would last longer.
The good news is that Mike Callahan trekked out this summer and do an assessment of 19 problem sights. So once they work out the financial details, he’ll come back and the beavers will get to enjoy actual fruits to their labors. Check out the gnawed trees in her photos. That’s some serious chewing.
The other great thing about her trip was hiking out to Horseshoe Lake at Denali National Park to see if she could some some actual beavers. What a great treat to see them in this massive lake at the foot of lovely mountains. Check out the photos here and plan your trip soon.
We wanted to share with you the amazing experience we had with the beavers at Horseshoe Lake. Martinez should be very proud that our beavers have come to live here. When you see beavers out on a beautiful pond surrounded by beautiful mountains in a clear lake, it does make you wonder why our beavers have chosen our little creek with all its garbage!
Ahhh, some people spend all their money to move into nice houses with glorious views, and some move into fixeruppers and take a transformational journey while they work on developing them into landmarks.
Our beavers have vision!
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