MORE HANDICAPPED SALMON

A few days ago this aired on CBC radio -. the middle segment is about installing fish passage boxes so that salmon could get over beaver dams in Nova Scotia . Victoria Neville does a pretty delicate job with the interview trying tp explain all the good beavers do. but it still dumbfounded me that the WWF would be using donations to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.

Of course I said as much at the time which prompted several very concerned and patient conversations about  public perception being so abysmal in the region they are working hard to chip away at the edges. The design was Adrien’s based on Mike’s and they made things easier for fish at low flow conditions which climate change was making happen more often.

I listened and underestood some of it. But honestly if the problem is mostly PERCEPTION then wouldn’t it be a mistake to offer a solution that reinforces the idea that there us a problem in the first place?

I suggested at least changing the name to something that reminded people that  under normal conditions it wasn’t needed. 

Something like the “Drought Ladder.”