And you thought them crazy Beaver people would be satisfied by saving beavers in Martinez!!! Ha! That was an appetizer! A practice run! We have a larger agenda that will make the last two years look like child’s play! Our big plans are moving solidly forward; I thought I’d give you glimpse into my day yesterday.
- I got an email this week from Skip Lisle, the installer of our flow device, saying he was thinking about coming out to the bay area for a family event and did we know anyone who needed beaver work done while he was here? I took the opportunity to write a neighboring city with a beaver colony we have been watching, letting them know that there were options, and that eyes were upon them. I got a phone call yesterday from the manager of public works asking to have a conversation about “these flow devices” that can allow them to “keep the water low and preserve the habitat”.
- This week we finally set up the conference call for the authors launching the paper proving beavers were historically in california over 1000 feet. This will be a collaboration between the archeologist from BIA who found the dam and had it carbon tested, the hydrologist from USFS/USDA we met at the Flyway Festival, and some others. This paper WILL really be written. Tappe WILL really be challenged. And Kings Beach WILL have to come up with a different excuse to kill the next round of beavers.
- I got an email yesterday from a buddy of Brock Dolman’s who works for Northern California Fish & Game. He has been working with Brock on a literature review of the benefit of beavers, beginning with their effect on salmon. He is very impressed by the enthusiastic research we’ve been doing so far and wants our wiki friend and myself to be co authors in his upcoming paper designed to completely reconsider the way Fish & Game responds to beavers in California. Read that sentence again. Completely reconsider the way Fish & Game responds to beavers all over California!!!!!!!
It’s a beaver REVOLUTION!!!
