So last night we presented the Plans for Beaver Festival V to the Parks Recreation Marina and Cultural Commission and were introduced by a beaming City Engineer as ‘very popular ‘. The chair described the beaver festival as ‘an enormously successful event’ and everyone voted unanimously to give us permission again this year. So far, so good! Tonight is a planning meeting (so named because I plan to delegate as much work as humanely possible and see if it sticks). In addition I have tried unsuccessfully for two days now to talk myself out of a very compelling idea that won’t stop twinkling around in my brain but hopefully it will either be actualized or extinguished in consultation. I’ll keep you posted.
Now because all beaver news doesn’t come from Martinez, here’s a fairly heart-warming story from Holyoke Massachusetts. What do you know, a whole story from the Bay state without a false complaint that the population has exploded! Nice.
And because nothing in a beaver’s world is ever without conflict, here’s the irritating conclusion of the “Ickiest Story Ever Told” from Orrington Maine story where a failed flow device lead to a flooded dam and the washout of a major road way.
11 beavers caught in Orrington since dam burst
ORRINGTON, Maine — Nearly a dozen beavers, part of a colony that built an approximately 80-foot dam on Swetts Pond Road that failed in March, have been trapped, Town Manager Paul White said Tuesday.
“Eleven have been relocated,” he said. “Don’t ask me where because I couldn’t tell you. All I know is they’re out of Orrington.”
A trapper was called in by property owner Larry Pelletier after the beaver dam broke March 23 and caused extensive damage to the road and a portion of the nearby railroad tracks.
Were Hancock traps used? And were family members relocated as a group? Will the next flow device installed in Maine be checked from time to make sure its functional? And since papers always pride themselves in telling ‘both sides of the story’ will there be a follow-up report of all the good beaver do in Orrington?
Just don’t ask.
