One thing that’s nice about being notorious in the Beaver-Kingdom is the knowledge that beaver news, important or otherwise WILL eventually find you. I mean there’s a certain amount of work I do to check the dailies, but for the monthlies I rely on the other good folks in the world. I got the alert on this from Bob Kobres of Georgia and yesterday received the scan from Sherry Guzzi of Sierra Wildlife. Many thanks to you both! From Defenders of Wildlife.
Beavers Nature’s Ecosystem Engineers
Since this website is devoted all day every day to news about beavers and only beavers, I’m a little picky when it comes to “spot cover” stories. I know that the big sexy animals like wolves and cougars are the bread and butter of these groups, and beavers are just an ‘occasional filler’ when the magazine needs padding out.
But this ain’t bad.
Beavers incentive program? Obviously to my way of thinking the beavers themselves are incentive enough. But hey, I’m hardly an unbiased opinion. I wonder what that means? If I were trying to ‘incentivize beavers’ I would start by loaning night cams to property owners because I think when people see what’s cutting down their trees or plugging their culverts its a different story.
Take this video Robin of Napa found yesterday.
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I just love the happy regard these watchers extend to this fortunate beaver, who apparently is only too happy with his new ‘crew-mate’. I think lots of ‘saving’ starts with ‘seeing’ and many a war correspondent would agree with me.
You hear that? Beavers benefit at-risk wildlife! Nice phase. Which in our current era means pretty much ALL wildlife. Or all life, really. It’s a risky world out there. We’re all polar beavers, now, baby.
