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{column2} This book, by Professor Dietland Muller-Swarze, is a careful, scientific, and exhaustively-researched chronicle on our hero and his works. It was, without a doubt, the single most useful weapon employed during my service on the beaver subcommittee. It shaped my contribution to the report and gave me the confidence to recognize that in addition to being what I, personally, wanted, keeping the beavers was also the right thing to do for the creek. I still use it regularly to remind me of details about dispersal, molting, sexual maturity, or scent marking. The chapter on beaver reproduction and kit rearing is particularly on my mind at the moment for obvious reasons. I believe I feel for it an echo of the same reverence and affection a soldier feels for his trusty rifle after a long and bloody battle. ‘It got met is outta there alive.’ and ‘This is the one friend I can trust’‘ or even ‘This has seen things that no one back home will ever understand’. {/column2}
Certainly all of those apply to this unique resource. So when I approached Dr. Muller-Swarze about donating a signed copy for the silent auction at the festival, I was prepared to be ignored or brushed away (‘Go away and come back tomorrow! The wizard will see no one today!) Imagine how pleased I was to get his gracious response, promising me a signed copy and polishing my tarnished advocate’s spirit with the words “Worth A Dam does great work, in both direct support for the beavers and associated flora and fauna; and educating the public. Your efforts deserve support.“
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British : quite pleased : delighted
Bitter Tear Update:
Heard from Cheryl last night that IBRRC experts are still hard at work in the gulf. (600 dead birds so far and counting.) Add this to your “worst story ever” diary. The oiled pelicans you keep seeing are busy nesting. These skilled fishermen dive deep into the ruined ocean to catch their dinner and come up slick with oil. Devoted mothers all, they return to faithfully sit on their hopeful eggs (because even during an apocalypse children must be cared for). In doing so they coat the eggs with oil, which becomes a natural coddling process, sealing off the oxygen and suffocating their own children.
