You might remember that the Nature Based Solutions team in California mentioned in passing that beavers were useful for climate change in their prior document asking for feedback. Well they got it, A host of signatories gathered by Bonnie Felix and myself as well as a massive OAEC campaign. On earth day they released their updated document and it has four magic words because of our efforts.
The four words are under the Wetlands section. I going to assume there was a ton of arguing and cajoling and whittling done at the policy level to get them included. I’m imagining members of CDFW actually tied themselves to railroad tracks in protest.
But what’s done is done. I’m guessing it will be impossible to put this particular genie back into the bottle. I hope you’re sitting down for this.
