Do you remember last July when I posted about it being time to hire a lobbyist for beavers? At the time shared an article about Jennifer Fearing and suggested that sometimes you need someone on the front lines in Sacramento to make this happen. Well it’s happening. Yesterday I got a request from Ms. Fearing to support the OAEC letter on 30 x 30 and today’s she’s in Mike’s McPhate’s California newsletter.

5 questions with …

… Jennifer Fearing, a Sacramento-based environmental and animal rights advocate.

I’d also like to see California bring back beavers, amazing animals that bring enormous, urgently needed benefits to the state’s water challenges, habitats for endangered species, and climate change impacts. Nature’s engineers are native to California, but since the “fur rush” that preceded the race for gold nearly wiped them out, beavers have been treated as nuisance animals under California law and policy. I’m grateful to California scientists and beaver believers like Dr. Emily Fairfax who are making the case and communicating it to the public and decision makers. (more…)