Time from some more wonderful beaver promotion by “Sammy the Salmon” who really needs to swim to a beaver festival some day.
Learn ‘All About Beavers’ at NW Stream Center
The Adopt A Stream Foundation is hosting “All About Beavers” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Northwest Stream Center. “All About Beavers” includes a showing of the IMAX movie “Beavers,” followed by a presentation on beaver habits, habitat requirements and physiology.
Sammy the Salmon will kick off the show by explaining why beaver dams are beneficial to a wide range of wildlife, including salmon and trout. Following Sammy’s presentation will be a showing of the movie “Beavers.”
“The whole family will enjoy the ‘Beavers’ movie,” said Adopt-A-Stream Foundation Director Tom Murdoch. “Everyone will be able to take a virtual swim with beavers and experience the beautiful underwater habitat of one of natures greatest engineers.”
This 31-minute movie is set in pristine forest and lakes that are in the heart of the Canad
ian Rocky Mountains. The film follows the lives of a family of beavers.
Watch baby beavers (kits) grow, play and, along with their parents, transform the world around them.
After the movie, Murdoch will answer questions from the audience about beavers. He will be assisted by “Fred the Head” (the skull of a 69 pound beaver) during the Q&A.
I’m always happy about regional beaver education, and exceptionally happy to hear salmon talking about how great beavers are for them. But the child psychologist in me thinks these little names get old pretty fast. Sammy the salmon. Fred the Head. Barney the Beaver. Trent the Trout. Wendy the Waterfowl.
Tucker the Trapper.
I mean REALLY, is that the only way you can think of to get a child’s attention? 
