Have you ever opened your email and something wonderful popped out? Well this weekend I found out about the State of the Beaver 2010 conference in Oregon put together by the Beaver Advocacy Committee of SURCP.
We need water! We want our native salmon runs back! And we want them for less cost, no additional taxes and less paper work! Welcome to the State of the Beaver 2010 Conference where we will learn to work with beavers to gain their benefits and minimize the problems they can cause.
The three day venue February 3, 4 and 5 will feature our good friends Skip Lisle, Sherrie Tippie and John Hadidian, as we as the exciting new addition of Dr. Michael Pollack of the NOAA. He’s the chief researcher of the beavers and salmon study group paper we wrote about earlier. Go read the agenda because there’s three days worth of goodies no self-respecting beaver fan would want to miss, including a great discussion on the importance of beavers to the native americans and the new research on reintroduction in Europe.
BAC Co-chairs, Leonard and Lois Houston, wrote me in 2008 after hearing about our struggle to save the Martinez Beavers. They tell me they are currently hard at work with a five year radio tracking research project to locate the movements of nuisance beavers. Oregon has been a pioneer in beaver reintroduction as a tool for increasing salmon. A mere 6 and a half hours from Martinez, the conference is chock full of remarkable things and you can bet Worth A Dam will be there.
