These are exciting times in the beaver-verse. Ben Goldfarb addressed the Exeter University panel of 400 people gathered for the three day beaver conference. Derek Gow posted a 360 shot of the impatient crowd last night, and the Times is running an article this morning.
I wish I knew how to embed it but here’s the link so you can go see for yourself – it’s cool to look around the room and see them hanging from the rafters to hear about beavers, but try this link
I hope we get some rumors soon about how its all going and you can be sure I’ll pass them along.It’s what I do. The Times article is behind a firewall and I’m too cheap to be able to share, but here’s a taste of what we’re missing.
The Times
If only CS Lewis had not had Mr Beaver sitting at a hole in the ice until he had “whisked out a beautiful trout”.
The author of The Chronicles of Narnia has been lambasted for giving generations of schoolchildren the misleading impression that beavers are pescatarians.
The writer Ben Goldfarb said that it had directly led to widespread opposition to the reintroduction of the species in Britain, including among anglers, who he said had been “miseducated by CS Lewis”.
Instead of blaming Mr. Lewis how about naming the thousands of trappers that hunted beaver to extinction on every corner of the UK and Europe so that the Brits spent 400 years not knowing the animal or knowing what they ate?
In other exciting news the beaver festival made the cover of the June Diablo Gazette, which of course we are very happy about. Amy’s photo is so inviting I’m tempted to be there myself!
Such a great photo! Her husband really captured just the right image don’t you think?
