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 Canadian 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?

kit 2012 — Kit 2012 -Photo Cheryl Reynolds

Looks like we finally got Cheryl to stop chasing down wanna-beavers in Benicia, Fairfield & American Canyon and take pictures of the genuine royal family in Martinez! Here are some nice shots from her visit last night. As you can see he is making excellent progress on his ‘devout’ impression. Jean was there too so I’m sure what he was praying was ‘God, I hope she brought fennel!’

betterkit2012JPG — Beaver kit 2012-Photo Cheryl Reynolds

Great news from Washington where Adopt A Stream in Snohomish County will be showing the IMAX beaver movie and teaching folks about beavers. Way back at the beginning of the Martinez beaver saga (during the punic wars) the Snohomish beaver website was about the only place one could turn for beaver answers. I wound up making a good friend of the watershed steward responsible for it, who is now comfortably retired. The evening starts off with Sammy the Salmon introducing his good friends which could not be better.

The beaver program kicks off with a presentation by “Sammy the Salmon,” a six-foot-long talking salmon character. Sammy will introduce the program by describing how beaver dams are good for salmon and trout. Sammy will show a short underwater viewing of the life cycle of salmon produced by Japan’s Hokkaido Television and Broadcasting, according to press material.

Sammy so needs to come to the beaver festival! Of course the only problem with this story is the headline

IMAX film peers inside beaver dam

Sigh. Washington may be smarter than every other state when it comes to beavers and beaver management. But one or two headline writers are still pretty dam stupid.