Happy new year! Time to look back at what 2020 has meant for beavers. Sure it’s been a dog poo year for us, but a surprising amount has gone on in their lives this year. Here’s some highlights.

January

• Dr. Fairfax and Smokey the Beaver
• Just Leave Everything to Me
• Chew Chew Chew Baby

February

• Beavers are coming to town!
• Wen Wen for Beavers (The Chinese Worth A Dam story(

March

• Mary Obrien and the Beaver Gospel
• Beavers in Maryland Day 1
• First they ignore you (CDFW gets told why beavers matter)

April

• Beaver champions on the Pacific Coast
• Elegiac for Beavers (covid starts cancelling beaver events)
• Another hard problem beavers could be solving

May

• Winning Hearts an Minds means mostly Hearts
• The little Beaver Festival that couldn’t

June

• The Festival Under Water
• Napa’s Birth Announcement
• Zooming for beavers (Lindsey Wildlife)

July

• Getting in Good trouble for Beavers (Glynnis Hood)
• Beavers in Memoriam: Scotland remembers

August

• We are all 60% beaver
• Introducing the Beaver Coalition
• Sierra Beavers Make it Big

September

• Hollywood Saves Beavers
• Beavers in National Geographic

October

• “Beavers fucking belong here” And the NM Beaver Summit
• Beavers are number two in the killing fields

November

• Marsh Creek and the Beavers that Might have Been
• The Beaver Coalition gets grant from USDA

December

• The California Beaver Summit: It’s about dam time!
• Now look at what you started!

Well thanks for another year of beavers, It was actually such a muddle of the same day over and over that it was helpful to go back through and remember that things actually happened. Whatever comes we’ll remember this. 2020 was a helluva year.

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