Off to Chumash territory this morning to talk about beavers and steelhead and stream restoration. In case you’ve forgotten, the Chumash once had 7000 miles of coastal territory that included Santa Barbara. An old Chumash medicine woman explained that you could create a spring in dry land by planting a beaver-chewed stick in the ground where you wanted it to appear. And it was the Chumash who gave us this, which was my first historical nativity discovery lo these many years ago, when I was SHOCKED to read that fish and game didn’t think they were native in most places. That was before the papers were published, before we knew about the archeologist, before anyone else but Rickipedia was even on board.
Seems fitting to be headed in that direction. Wish me luck!
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