Our beavers have been hard at work on the Arroyo willow. This recent one should count as three trees, and they are taking care of each one.
This morning revealed a triple beaver show, with an adult and kits going over the dam. Mom is definitely in her late stages of pregnancy and we plan a ‘baby pool” to guess how many kits she’ll have this year. A lucky winner will get a free tshirt, and a smug sense of castor consilium to show off to all your neighbors.
Here’s a feel-good story from Washington (where else?)—the site of this years “working beavers conference”, where implementation of the Watershed Stewards has successfully managed beavers in some of the nations most complicated wetlands, and a state that recently considered mandatory relocation instead of extermination. The Evergreen State is light years ahead of the rest of the country in advanced beaver thinking. This news clip describes the sad fact of some beavers being hit on the road, but listen to the tone of the piece.
Honestly after to hearing so much beaver grief for so many years, enduring every possible beaver pun from condescending media who really can’t see why we care so much, and catching the Brit Hume eye roll when the beavers of Martinez made national news, the earnest and compassionate reporting of this story almost made me giggle. Thanks for the treat, Channel 19 KEPR TV.
