Category: Beavers

Do you ever have that dream where every thing goes wrong and you have to pass a math quiz in a class it turns out you never attended and didn’t know you were taking and your pencil keeps breaking and turning into a worm? Well that’s what happened to my talk to the watershed forum yesterday, The internet died so I couldn’t zoom and I couldn’t call in fast enough to compensate because my phone’s pound key wasn’t working (which is not the kind of thing you ever notice until you NEED it). So I limped through the presentation and spent the rest of the day feeling like a massive failure. They were so eager for beavers too. The folks at lafayette reservoir all came and wanted to hear all about them.

Sigh.

In my defense I did finish my presentation on friday and offer to send it ahead of time just for backup in case something rotten happened but noooooo body could be bothered. So I tried. I really tried.

I hope I get to try again someday, Tell the beavers I’m sorry I let them down.

Can I sue?

Article from Dec 2, 1925 Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California)

I thought I’d remind you what a big deal the California Beaver Summit was.

C

Two fine days that changed the state forever. Your welcome.

Beavers all over the Bay Area. That’s what we’re looking for. As many beavers as there are people to save them. This weekend I heard about a new dam in the actual Walnut Creek between Monument Blvd and Bancroft in Concord.

I’ve known folks are seeing one or two beavers out that way over the last couple years, and we know a beaver was hit by a car near Mohr lane and taken to Lindsey wildlife a while back, but I wasn’t expecting this:

Wait what? How many beavers?

Five? Five beavers on the bank? Looks to me like one adult and four 5-6 month old kits. I guess from this year’s birth. How is that possible?

What are they doing? They aren’t grooming, They appear to be browsing. But what on earth is there for them to be eating in all that dead grass?

Where do they live? How do they live? Should we assume these are kits with mom? Where is Dad? Is he just a beaver that got lucky or unlucky and went off looking for other pastures? Is he downstream?

These questions must be answered. We must know. There must be a tail cam installed. They are so dark. Almost black. Our beavers were brown. Does this mean they are not our decendents?

5 new beavers to worry about.

Ohhhhhh.

I came across this editorial recently. It is from a 1938 copy of the Martinez Gazette. A reprint of an earlier editorial in the Daily Oklahoman. After I popped my eyeballs back into their sockets I wanted to show it to you.

John Tamen 1938 beavers prevent flooding

Article from Oct 25, 1938 Martinez News-Gazette (Martinez, California)

Just to make sure you get the import here’s the money quote.

Do not tell me Martinez didn’t know better. We all did.

On the plus side it suggest that when countries are impacted by fascism they are smarter about beavers. So that’s a plus.