Things are looking much better for the Owens Valley Beavers, previously doomed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power who announced in February that they were putting a contract on their lives. A feisty local advocate, gleaning information from this website, has taken it upon herself to champion their cause. We have been exchanging regular emails, crafting letters to LADWP, and planning her next moves. She has been horrified by conversations with Fish and game and has been judiciously hounding LASPCA, LA Sierra Club, and HSUS about their safety. I know Skip Lisle was contacted by HSUS about the work, and yesterday our LA-liaison finally saw things click into place. Maybe they can turn from a ‘who’s killing beavers now’ story into a ‘happy ending beaver story’. Fingers crossed.
(Two days ago, feeling the beginnings of success, she made a thank you donation to Worth A Dam. I asked her t-shirt size to send off and she demurred, saying all she really wished she could have was a beaver chew, too bad we didn’t have those for sale…)
Let’s just say I think she’ll enjoy her mail today.
Cheryl stopped by this morning and snapped this photo of a beaver near the footbridge. She writes “
Went out this am saw 2 beavers, one going across the break in the primary, got there just a couple minutes too late, basically saw a tail flip up and then he went upstream. 3 Kingfishers,were zooming up and down the creek. One kit (yearling!!) was under the blackberries upstream of the footbridge, I got a not so great early am shot of him.
