I was contacted this week by Mary Grim of the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. She was involved with a project to provide materials to elementary teachers in Brentwood and Oakley about their local environment. Might I consider sharing the kids beaver powerpoint for them to use?
Might I indeed!
Brentwood and Oakley are two areas of California in particular with whom I’d be happy to pass along some beaver-understanding. There are beloved beavers at Big Break in EBRP and some protectively undisclosed beavers around the watershed, but the delta region in general is phobic of beavers. (Worried that they will tunnel through the eroding levy walls and cause massive flooding.)
So I can’t imagine a better way to effortlessly pass along the things we’ve learned about beavers first hand. I added notes to the presentation so that teachers would have an easier job, and included the handout I worked on with Mike Callahan for his DVD, “What good are beavers?” The powerpoint emphasizes the way beavers adapt to their environment using our beaver photos with children’s photos and drawings.
Anyway, Mary was thrilled with the product, and very generous with her enthusiasm. She also wanted to know if we had really seen all those new species first hand and did I really think they were drawn by the beaver ponds?
I assured her the photos were most definately taken here, and invited her to come see how beaver ponds attract wildlife for herself!
