DO WHAT I WANT AND NOT WHAT I DON’T WANT, OK?

heidi08 Beavers November 2, 2021

Sure ODFW want beavers. kind of. But they are not willing to actually read about it or put in a few BDAs to make it easier for them to stay.

Can beavers save the Klamath Marsh?

The Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge looks very different today than it did 35 years ago.

Alex Gonyaw, senior fisheries biologist for the Klamath Tribes, said these are the impacts of man-made calamities on the marsh that span more than 200 years.

After settlement, the view of wetlands was to drain and convert them to something useful, even though they were perfectly useful to the people who’d lived here for 15,000 years,” Gonyaw said of activities like farming and ranching that diverted water from the area to larger swaths of arable and grazing land.

This water diversion has shortened the wet season in the marsh, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

All of a sudden, “What began as a complex, emergent wetland and open water system was converted to a couple puddles,” Gonyaw said. (more…)

CAROL EVANS AND NEVADA BEAVERS REVISITED

This was just released yesterday and you should get everyone you know to watch it. Carol Evans is blossoming in retirement. Clearly you need to be a little bit retired to fully speak your mind about beavers if you work for a large federal agency. Or a state agency, Or anywhere really. You get the idea.

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BUILD BACK BEAVER?

heidi08 Beavers October 31, 2021

I can’t believe the headline isn’t from me, but you’ll never guess who that quippy little approximation of Biden’s infrastructure plan came from: Boris Johnson. But it works, I like it, and I’m taking it forward. Lots of surprises this morning, 30 names added to the letter so far. And a nice upcoming talk with Dr. Fairfax that mentions the beaver festival?

Beavers in the Landscape with Dr Emily Fairfax

Beaver dams are gaining popularity as a low-tech, low-cost strategy to build climate resiliency at the landscape scale. Emily Fairfax

Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for an evening with Dr. Emily Fairfax, PhD. as she shares her research focused on beaver, a keystone species that until very recently was a vastly underrated ecosystem restoration hero. Passionate about science from a young age, Emily Fairfax was happy when nature and science came together with her interest in beavers. As a geoscientist who studies ecohydrology of wetlands and riparian areas, it was a perfect academic and vocational match.

With extended droughts and catastrophic fires plaguing California and the West in recent years, Dr. Fairfax began focusing her research on the impact of beaver on wildfires. Squishy, wet landscapes simply don’t burn. And where beaver are, with multiple dam complexes and ponds, squishy land abounds. These conclusions prompted Fairfax to coin the phrase “Smokey the Beaver”. (more…)

NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS: ADD YOUR VOICE

heidi08 Beavers October 31, 2021

Send me your name and title if you want to add your signature to this letter by November 5th, or send your own comments. Review the document here: Expanding Nature Based Solutions (more…)

NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS MEANS BEAVER

heidi08 Attitudes towards beavers, Beavers October 31, 2021

Well will you look at that! The California Natural Resources agency just released their guidelines for nature based solutions to the Climate Smart strategy ordered by the Governor and they’re asking for public input. Isn’t that a coincidence because I was just about to offer some!

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