Wow, it’s beaver season out there with a huge dump of news this morning which includes the New York Times. But lets start locally as we always have and talk about the new issue of Open Road with Doug McConnell that dropped this weekend. It’s about the importance of meadows and somehow they crossed path with Brock Dolman who got them thinking about our favorite subject and introduced them to a friend of ours.
The beaver profile starts around 10:30, but it’s all good. Let’s play a little game and see if you recognize any photos, okay?
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That’s right! Beavers are awesome. And their photographers rock. That was the handywork of our own Rusty Cohn who earned himself a neat little byline.
Of course it’s a half hour program so there wasn’t time to talk about how the forest service wanted to use beavers in the sierra and were told they couldn’t because they weren’t native, which prompted archeologist Chuck James research which prompted our papers which lead to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife saying, umm okay…you win….they’re native.
Ahhh memories!
