Sometimes news stories just make me jealous. So many people doing so many smart things to benefit beavers because they realize the good things that beavers bring – it just makes me wish and wish that California had the same qualities of smart stewardship. At least they put it in the paper so everyone can learn from it, That’s something, right?

 

Join Land Conservancy’s willow-planting stewardship day March 10

SEASIDE — Thompson Creek and Stanley Marsh Habitat Reserve in Seaside is one of the North Coast Land Conservancy’s most visible success stories, with coho salmon migrating up Thompson Creek to spawn every winter and beavers returning to create more salmon habitat.

You can help the Conservancy keep that success going by joining a willow-planting stewardship day at Thompson Creek 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 10.

Willow planting is one of the conservancy’s easiest and most popular stewardship activities. Willows provide food and building materials to beavers. The dams those beavers build result in broader wetlands, enhancing habitat for a wide variety of wildlife, from salmon to waterfowl.

HURRAY for people who realize that planting willow for beavers is a good way to help fish and birds. Hurray for the North Coast Land Trust who helps these things happen year after year. Hurray for the lucky beavers that will find their way to these tender shoots and make their start of with new dam.

 

And then there’s Martinez.

Where volunteers work with the frickin’ waterboard, conservation core and city engineer to plant willow for beavers and city staff pulls them up anyway.

THREE YEARS IN A ROW!