Bagpiper Jeff Campbell, who lead our Scottish Procession at the beaver festival, sends this picture of the soon to be commonplace combination of kilt and beaver shirt. Don’t they look great together? (Ya hear that Scotland? Take good care of your beavers and you can have your own soon!) Jeff did us a huge favor without a whit of compensation, but we couldn’t send him away empty handed!
Speaking of t-shirt payment, we got notice from our beaver buddy in Frankfurt that Europe will host it’s 2009 5th Annual Beaver Symposium September in Lithuania. Guess who’ll speaking about beaver management? Skip Lisle.
Solutions to beaver-human conflicts that are long-lasting, reliable, and
preserve precious wetlands: an update of successful flow device
techniques in North America and Europe
Lisle S., Czech A.
The conference is a research-heavy beaver exploration with words like “phylogeny” on the agenda, but the part I would love to be there for is the update on the Scottish Beaver Trial, which includes a discussion of how they’re doing so far. That’s the group that Skip’s involved in.
Our Frankfurt friend will be in attendance, and kindly volunteered to offer daily updates for posting. I snatched up his offer greedily and dubbed him our “foreign correspondent”.
I would like to sent daily e-mail summaries to you as your correspondent:
There are several topics that are of interest to US-Americans, please make your choice.
As payment for his foreign service, we sent him our 2008 and 2009 Worth A Dam t-shirts. I hope he’s sitting in the front row when Skip looks out and sees our t-shirt staring back at him. It will blow his mind!
True confessions of a blogger, I connected with Alex because of the last conference in Europe. Backstage at the website you can see all kinds of things about visitors, (it’s good for snooping on the city when the city is snooping on us) and I noticed that someone had sent my columns to Hope Ryden of Lily Pond Fame. I looked up his email address and found the list of attendees at the last international beaver conference. Eager to track down knowledge, I wrote him and we began a dialogue. He’s spent time with Hope Ryden and worked with Sherri Tippie, and is a generally good fellow. It’s fun to have a beaver friend in Germany, and I honestly can’t wait until he is reporting for Worth A Dam from Lituania.
