Got an email this week from our friends at Madrone Audubon where Worth A Dam is officially in the newsletter for our October 15th presentation. Brock Dolman will be on first talking about why Sonoma wants beavers, and then I’ll chat about what Martinez did with them. The newsletter described us as a nationally acclaimed non-profit which certainly sounds nice, if a little exaggerate. Well, I suppose someone in the nation has acclaimed us on one occasion or another. Maybe internationally if you count Scotland and Canada?
I was pulling together my talk when I saw this. Art Wolinsky of New Hampshire has been motion-sensor filming his beavers with some amazing results. (visit his website for some tree-chopping infrared footage). The other night the beavers half chewed that big tree. Look what happens now:
And now is as good a time as any to remind you of Steve Zack and Hilary Cooke’s excellent 2008 finding that beaver dams significantly improve migratory and songbird numbers. I exchanged emails with both of them to try and urge them to come present at the beaver conference in January, but I don’t think I was persuasive enough.
Yet.
