Kent Woodruff was the visionary USFS leader behind the ground-breaking Methow Project and really the spark for so many beaver movements across the country. His protege is Alexa Whipple who now directs the beaver project hersel. I was looking forward to hearing this talk from BeaverCon2. Make sure you find time for it too.
I think Jakob has a cold in this video, but this is a spot ON presentation anyway, with a question and answer segment that is worth flying to Maryland for. I think he is interested in our incent-a-beaver idea, or has his own. Listen to this all the way through.
It feels like a million years ago that Skip Lisle came to Martinez to install our flow device. I think I have aged dramatically since that time, and I can barely remember the way it started. So many things were different. I was working. Jon was working. Martinez had a Gazette. We had a different president. The housing market hadn’t crashed. There was no covid.
And yet when I watch this video looking at Skip makes me think it wasn’t that long ago after all.
This was delivered at Beaver Con2 and it’s well worth watching. I know we’ve all have heard Emily’s talk about her dissertation on large fires in five states right? Does she have anything new to teach us now? Yes she does. Her research has grown by leaps and bounds. Which is good because our fire season has grown by leaps and bounds too. How do you think beaver habitat stood up to the new MEGAFIRES we recently invented? Better hang onto your hat. This has a strong updraft.
If I were you I’d watch the whole thing. If I were me I’d probably watch some parts over again after that.
And if I were the governor I’d play it on repeating loop in my lunchroom.
Apparently it was a DAM fine Beaver Conference.
