So yesterday staff was able to cut the cables, remove the snag and upright the filter. No jet ski’s or motorboats were employed, and we couldn’t be happier. The secondary dam clearly did much better than the news thought, because there’s a great bump in the water that just needs sticks woven into the top. I’m not at all surprised, since they spent the lions share of their effort working on it the last few times. As the sun is actually shining today, I think there should be some serious rejoicing.
Not enough good news? I heard from a friend of a friend that the trees have been wrapped in Lincoln Park in Illinois! Mind you with actual wire, (well chain-linked fencing). Let’s hope they had some laying around and wanted to use up their supply, not that they didn’t choose it without reading about what to use. And let’s hope they left some space between the wire and the tree. The friend wonders if 6 feet of wire is a little ambitious, but since the snow could give the beavers a four foot head start, it seems wise. Of course the good news is that any park that wraps trees is a park that expects to keep its beavers, so hooray! Nice work!
A final cheery rumor is that I was contacted yesterday by a certain former editor of a certain local paper who is now at the UCB graduate school of journalism and he wants to do a project on a subject that is very near and dear to my heart. Not the one that is still getting hours of media attention, but the other one that should have.
More on this, later. In the mean time enjoy the sun!
