Rickipedia to the rescue writes:
I edited the page to make it clear that the Martinez beavers are, in fact, notable. This is key to being in Wikipedia. A book reference is a nice way to do it – i then contrast to the Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio statement which was not relevant to the beavers. So I changed the second sentence as follows:”Best known as the longtime home of naturalist John Muir, Martinez has become a national example of urban stream restoration utilizing beaver as ecosystem engineers.” and added Ann Riley’s book as the reference for this statement.
Should be good now.
If you want to check it out for yourself go here. Sometimes you have the good fortune to cross paths with someone that winds up being really, really useful. I first met Rickipedia when he contacted this website wondering whether beavers could have historically maintained the stream behind his house in Santa Clara. The ‘experts’ told him there were none out that way, but he wasn’t so sure. Then I met USFS worker at the 2010 Flyway festival who told me about archeologist carbon testing the beaver dam in the Sierras and I had an amazing conversation with him. Then we all decided there might be enough to turn it into a paper or two. And you know the rest.
Thank you so much Rickipedia for getting the Martinez Beavers back on track!
I spent most of yesterday working on this. It was inspired by something Mary Obrien said during an interview when she noted something like “when a beaver moves into a stream it’s like all these other species are riding on its tail!” A gifted artist could easily have painted the different species, but I possessed no skill but thievery to snag various logo images from off the web.
Layering them together to fit the tail was really complicated to do but I’m nearly happy with how this came out. It gets across the general idea. Now we just need to inspire the artist who will do it correctly.
