June of course is Kit time. Not when they’re born around here but when they’re usually seen for the first time. For 11 years I watched new kits fumble around the creek every summer, I suffer withdrawal pangs every day that I don’t get to see a beaver kit in 2019, but John Hutters in the Netherlands posted this photo on facebook yesterday that soothed my soul for a while.
It may well be the sweetest parent/kit shot I have ever seen, but I’m open to competition.
Look at that tail! Just look at it and tell ME that isn’t a social greeting! I adore this picture. John also has a sweet new film of mother and kit grooming but it isn’t on youtube yet so unshareable here. Something to look forward to, I promise.
Meanwhile our friend Emily Fairfax has started teaching at Cal State Channel Islands, where she is working on accessible ways to process data so that she can teach her students to be the most convincing scientists they can be, This meant she was excited about the beaver depredation spreadsheet we got from CDFW. And she tossed together this lovely interactive.
If you hover over a region it will tell you the name of the county and how many permits were issued. Pretty snazzy huh? Not quite the right parameters for this website but darn cool to see live. Just look at that dark slash across placer county which stands like an open wound killing the most beavers of any place in the state.
Still.
Sigh.
But onward. We must fight for better things. Even if the freekin’ city won’t hang our lampost banners and the printer isn’t printing our brochure yet. Never you mind. The show, as they say, will go on. Here’s the lovely brochure for your perusal anyway. Use the +/- to zoom in and view it closer.
Brochure For Printer
