Did you read beaver April fool’s yesterday? (If you didn’t drop down one post and give yourself a treat). In addition to wistfully panging all day with what ‘might have been’, it also made me extremely happy. Yellow Springs (where the story was from) was the beaver case we got involved in Ohio where the community NEARLY forced the council to make a U-turn on some beaver-killing plans, but was overturned at the last moment. As you can see the meme still survived as a punchline in the April Fool’s article which means it’s still on everyone’s mind. In the words attributed to Ghandi:
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight with you
Then you win.
Clearly Ohio is at Stage Two on a grand scale, which is pretty amazing this early in the game. Expect some big beaver news from them soon. And thank you Lauren Shows for my favorite April Fool’s story EVER.
Meanwhile, Joe Wheaton writes that he has zero idea who was behind that article yesterday because no reporter ever talked to him about it. He was surprised that the webinar was so well attended, which is wonderful in every way you can think of. I wonder if more articles will come creeping across our paths?
Yesterday I received two lovely copies of the new children’s book “The Skydiving Beavers” by Susan Wood. It’s going to be released on “International Beaver Day” April 7. I agreed to do a short interview with Susan for the release but I can proudly include them for our silent auction now.
Regular readers of this website know I braced myself for the story because Idaho’s great beaver fling is not my favorite 
beaver tale. But this book does an excellent job of introducing the thoughtful fish and game official, Elmo Heter, who came up with that crazy scheme. He remembered all that left over parachute silk from WWII and invented the box that would open on impact. Then ran several trials with a plucky beaver named ‘Geranimo” to make sure it worked.
What a pleasant surprise to flip to the ‘author’s notes’ at the back and find this: I’m going to imagine it winds up in every school library around the country, and some child or parent who wants to learn more will read it and save their local beavers as well.
Thanks, Susan and Sleeping Bear Press for the donation and including our grounded famous beavers in Martinez.
