Visions of beaver festivals have been percolating across the land. I am eager to see beavers celebrated in every place that has a zip code. We are already very excited about what’s coming in San Luis Obisbo on April 7th, and yesterday I had a nice chat with Nicole Fox of Durango, Colorado who wants to throw their first ever beaver festival this year.
Nicole spoke with me a few years back about wanting to start her own nonprofit for beavers, being inspired by our work and wanting to call it “Give A Dam” was that okay? And of course saving beavers is the point and I thought it was fine, (not as good as WORTH of course...) now she is wanting to put on her own festival.
So Nicole has been working to do class room educational activities about beavers and provide tours for local wildlife groups like the Sierra Club. She’s full of energy and eager to make a difference for beavers and the wildlife they support. She described one outdoor activity she does with long bolts of cloth where she has children recreate the streams that used to be here before all the beavers were trapped…this appealed to my medieval sensibilities because I could easily see it happening…then she described how she asks everyone wearing yellow to be the dragonflies, and everyone wearing blue to be the salmon, and everyone wearing green to be the herons, and everyone wearing brown to be the otters…Can’t you see how dynamic that would be on stage at our beaver festival for example?
Hmm stay tuned,,,
