Today is the day when people get together to talk about a beaver summit for California.  Excited doesn’t begin to  jydrolodescribe how I’m feeling. So I’ll just march on and tell you its ALSO the day that retired USFS hydrologist Suzanne Fouty will be on Jefferson Public Radio talking about beavers. I had a great chat with Suzanne and she was hopping mad about the decision by ODFW. I’m sure she’ll be amazing to listen too. Tune in at 8:00 am PST to listen live, and I’ll post the link tomorrow.

Tue 8 AM | Beaver State Nixes Additional Protections For Beavers

Oregon is The Beaver State, but it is not officially giving any further protection to its namesake animal. The state Fish and Wildlife Commission just voted against ending beaver trapping and hunting on federal lands in the state.

It was a second attempt by the Center for Biological Diversity to add protections for beavers, which were trapped and hunted nearly to extinction in the 19th century.

Quinn Read is Oregon Policy Director at CBD; Suzanne Fouty is a hydrologist who has studied beavers’ effects on streams. They join us with details of the effort and its disposition.

Once upon a time oregon had the crazy policy of regarding beavers as protected furbearers on public lands and classifying them as predators on private lands so they could be killed without a permit. Now its just all killing all the time. There’s lots to talk about. I’m glad it’s on at 8 am. Prime time in the radio world.

But hey, at least we have a president. And that’s feels pretty dam good.