There’s a great read this morning on beavers from the nearly 100 year-old Pine Cone in Carmel. This energetic reporter started out by contacting me last week, and followed up with Rick, our coastal paper and some requisite heavy weights at Fish and Game and the Forest service. It’s a very good article. Reading through it sounds like he really listened to what I said.
Aren’t you excited? Can’t you tell already that this is going to be a very good read? Oh yes, that second paragraph could only have be written by talking Heidi, because I’m a girl with a regional beaver overview.
Well not the city exactly – but thanks for the mention! He really goes head to head on the nativity issue when he talks to Tom Murphey of the USFS who says they don’t belong in the watershed.
Somebody’s been doing their homework! And talking to Rick obviously. The whole paper is obliging filled with the non-arguments of the “beaver-bad” school of thought, the gaping holes in which are repeatedly and cheerfully shown. I was worried when we checked in one last time on the phone. He said he had to present ‘both sides’. But one side clearly has research and resources and arguments, while the other sidehs….what exactly?
Hurray! Worth A Dam gets a mention! As a final note it is pointed out that the reintroduction of beavers would require an Environmental Impact Report, to which I say that’s fine.
I remember a certain lawsuit won at the appellate level that says the removal of beavers should too.
