“We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we…”
Herman Melville
Beavers make strange bed fellows.
You never know who might be headed on the same path as you when it comes to beavers. I’ve noted that before. And not just in the romantic sense of like minds falling in love. In the archaic sense of there being an inn with only three beds so you end up spending the night with complete strangers that wake up as friends.
One of Ishmael’s best friends and most memorable characters in Moby Dick started out that way – being the head-hunter in a shabby beaver hat that he just ‘happened’ to be assigned to share a bed with in the Nantucket inn near where the Pequod was docked.
I mention this now because I have a particular beaver project I’m working on at the moment and trying to recruit the right help. (I can’t tell you what it is yet but fingers crossed you will know soon enough.) Along the journey of 
connecting with folks who might help I met Doug Knutson who is a video producer at Windswept Productions in Canada.
Quite by accident it turned out we happen to have way more in common than you might think. Don’t believe me? Just watch.
Some friendships are destined before they ever leave the gate. Doug became so changed by his beaver-saving experience that he’s working on a documentary now about we deal with urban wildlife and will be filming some interviews with folks at the State of the Beaver Conference.
He said he couldn’t believe how transformed his life has been over the issue. To which of course, I could only smile.
Speaking of transformed Robin from Napa recently shared this from the Netherland Beavers facebook page. Just so you know, you are never allowed to complain about being ‘cold’ again.
