Well I’m exhausted. Aren’t you? I feel like I’ve been emotionally pushing a huge boulder up a freeway during rush hour traffic in LA. The good news is that we have very fun, easy films to premiere today, so you barely need to listen to me at all.
The first is from our fine friends at Wyoming Untrapped. You might recognize the beaver still as being by Suzi Eszterhas and starring our OWN frickin yearling. I admit I thought we were the only children she loved but apparently she takes care of other non-profits too. Sniff.
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Isn’t that excellent? Let’s hope it makes lots of people think twice in Wyoming about trapping beaver. Or to be honest, think ONCE. People need to pause and say, sure that beaver is flooding a tiny part of my ranch but gosh my cows could really use the water. Should I shoot them or wait and see what happens?
That tiny delay would already be a huge victory So let’s hope for that.
The second film is from our friends at The Beaver Trust and stars legendary Jim Parkyn of Wallace and Grommit fame (Aardman Animations) constructing a beaver model with some friends. Rumor has it that AA will be putting together some beaver shorts eventually, so stay tuned for that glory to come.
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Of Ian Boone, Sherri Tippie and of course every child in Martinez could meet his contest admirably, and has many times. But not bad considering you went 400 years without them..
