Mike Settell and the Watershed guardians are doing the hero’s work of trying to teach about beaver benefits in Idaho. There are easier places to change hearts and minds, believe me.
Our friends in Idaho have been pulling this off long enough to be very impressed. But this year the event has been pushed back to September. I assume for all the usual reasons that might require a change of plans.
Watershed Guardians fifth annual Beaver Dam Jam rescheduled to Sept. 15
POCATELLO — The date of the fifth annual Beaver Dam Jam, a music event to support beaver conservation that will host an open jam competition, raffles and demonstrations, has been moved to Sept. 15.
The event was originally scheduled for July 28. It will now run from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Mink Creek Pavilion.
The event includes food, a silent auction, raffles, a singer-songwriter contest and more. Headliners will be the Eclectics and Shawn and the Marauders. Watershed Guardians provides shuttle transportation to and from the event. On-site camping is available.
Think for a moment about the coordination needed to put this together every year. Shuttle? Campground? Ticket Sales? Publicity? Silent Auction? That’s some serious logistics involved in making this all happen.
Our beaver festival lasts exactly 5 hours once a year and I cannot imagine making it a millisecond longer. It’s a lot to take on.
I’m grateful every time I see that Mike and his merry men are up to the task!
Meanwhile I’ve been working to restore the ‘sightings page’ of the website. Even though our beavers aren’t visible at the moment, it’s a wealth of data that I wanted back. When you think about it, its a documentary of wildlife sightings, beaver behavior and observations over a decade. So I thought that was worth keeping. You can always access it through the ‘About us’ drop down menu, or go here.
There’s lots to love and hate about the new computer. My beaver decade saw three different cameras taking footage in three different formats, so it was a bit of a scramble to find everything. But I did find some very special footage I thought was lost early on. I had transferred it to my new mac at the time because I thought it would be safer, which turned out not to be true. I thought it was gone. But apparently it was just lurking.
Listen to our voices while I’m filming and you can see how early in our beaver career this happened. July 28, 2007. We practically know nothing. I even comment that some of the kits are ‘older’ than the others.
And Jon agrees with me! I’m not putting it on youtube because I don’t want to compress it. But click on the ‘four” to see it on this site. And turn your sound up to enjoy our beaver innocence!
