Did you ever have one of those days at the beach or the lake where it wasn’t too cold and wasn’t too hot and you were there with just the right people and just the right beverage and the sun was warm and sleepy and you laid in the sand and just BASKED.

There’s been soo much good news lately I feel like I’ve been Basking in Beavers.

Take this beautiful report from Blaine Callahan in Connecticut is a reminder of all the good things that can happen when people live with beavers.

Exploring the Last Green Valley: Beavers, nature’s eager and industrious engineer

Last week I traveled to New Hampshire to walk the forest lands my grandparents purchased in the early 1930s. In the woods are beaver ponds, each in a different stage of use or abandonment. March is a perfect time to get a close look at each of them when the still-frozen ground and ice makes for easier walking on wetlands. (more…)