Last night Rusty photographed a beaver giving and receiving a piggy back at the same time. Reminding me of some amazingly stacked toy where children can pile beaver on the back of beaver like elephants holding tails.

I just don’t know, do you think they’re cute enough?

Maybe if they were just a LITTLE cuter or had faces like raccoons or hung out in eucalyptus tree like Koala beavers they would have a chance of convincing people not to kill them. Maybe if they came out in the daytime or during traffic or only during parades people would understand how adorable and useful they are.

I mean it’s not enough that beaver ponds save water or prevent fire or reduce flooding or help salmon or increase birds or increase amphibians or remove nitrogen or clean the water, All that just isn’t enough.

So maybe if they were cuter?

 

Rusty Cohn transported my heart and happiness and took a visit to the North pond in Napa last night. Guess what he found? Click on any photo for a closer look.

I guess it really is June after all!

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy.

CDFW can have all the zoom meetings and public input and share holder sessions they like and the governor can write policy and the fisheries can argue about salmon vs whirling disease and the new rules for depredation policy can be outlined and revised but meanwhile beavers are marching on without any input at alt: without authorization, without funding, without interspecies input. without more research on nativity, without translocation, without scientific papers or peer review,.

Beavers are doing it themselves.

Oh my goodness! This is a well deserved eyeful from CBS and features our very good friend Rusty Cohn from Napa. Doing the right thing in the right place at the right time for a decade. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

What are you doing this Saturday? Why not make a pilgrimage to Napa and see ribbon cutting ceremony on the beaver interpretive signs? Yes you heard me right.