So yesterday I had a very fun conversation with an ambitious senior who’s admired beavers her whole life and wants to focus on them for her Girl Scout Gold Award. In case you don’t know, the gold award is like Eagle Scout for girls. Only 5 percent of all girls even try to achieve it. And I’m guessing less than .001 percent ever try to earn for focusing on beavers.
Her idea is to do an ebook focusing on beavers and restoration, two versions actually, one for children and one for farmers and ranchers. Because she is no slacker. She’s loved beavers ever since first grade and came to the beaver festival in 2019. She’s been very surprised to learn that people think of beavers as pests and told me in hushed tones of the keychain she saw in Canada where the beavers eyes were X’s.
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So of course we had lots to talk about, The fire in Yosemite and whether beavers could help. Why I got involved and my ideas about how to make a useful ebook that reaches the people it needs to convince, about her her primary interest is mechanical engineering and that beaver were like her ‘hobby’ and that so many people started out with different training and ended up with beavers, and then she asked if I would be her adviser and I thought, hey that is something I would very like to do.
Years ago Worth A Dam helped a teen earn his eagle award by planting trees and installing wood duck boxes along the creek. I’m thinking this will be even better.
Stay tuned.
