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See this pretty logo with the grasses blooming inside the ‘O’? It is for a marsh conservancy in Sacramento called the Natomas Basin Conservancy. Yes, I had never heard of them either Natomas is a Maidu word meaning “North place or Upstream of the people”

The Natomas Basin Conservancy is on the Sacramento river at the edge of the city, and “The purpose of the NBHCP is to promote biological conservation along with economic development and the continuation of agriculture within the Natomas Basin. ” As such they engage in species mitigation and replant native trees for bird use. They have a glossy. top dollar website that implores you on every page to DONATE NOW. They have a host of friends and landowning partners including folks at CDFW USDA and FWS.

And what they can’t stand is those dam beavers.

Here’s a blog post where they complain that the dam beavers are forcing them to wire wra0 replanted trees, and another where they complain that the beavers are eating the trees they planted for the Swainson’s hawk to nest.

I admit, this news upset me a bit. I had to sit on it for two days before I was ready to write about it. In the mean time I touched base with some beaver friends to ask if they knew anyone that worked there. I was given the name of what was described as a smart guy who had worked there before settling on another River Conservancy. I wrote him my concerns and asked if he might have any suggestions about who to contact or how to make approach.

He was very thoughtful and prompt. He answered that beavers were very  very destructive and maybe I might want to take some some time to learn about  the ecology of beavers at lower elevations first.

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