How much do you love this photo and want to be this eager child unfolding the mysteries of a beaver pond for the first time or the twelfth time. Every morning I went down to see our beavers I felt just like this kid, Howard Carter at the edge of Tutankhamun’s tomb, on the verge of discovery. Thank you Betsy for sharing this image on the beaver management forum.
I’ve finally gotten to the part of my urban handout where I’m talking about various experiences of discovery. Judy Taylor-Atkinson of Port Moody wrote a beautiful piece for it that I thought I’d share. Remember to click on the image twice if the text is to small.
Isn’t that beautiful? The very definition of “Urban Wildlife bringing Social Cohesion”. Completely unlike this Utah city which is missing the forest AND the trees.
Park City Municipal Will Euthanize Trapped Beaver: Flooding And Damage From Dams On Poison Creek
Park City public works has hired a trapping service to capture and euthanize a couple of beaver that have built dams on the stream along the Rail Trail. Residents have complained to the city that the back up of water from a couple beaver dams is causing flooding and property damage.
Lots of beavers on NPR this week. I particularly liked this quote. He sounds almost sad.
On McCleod Creek, we have 13 pond levelers and these pond levelers are constructed to where the beavers will build a dam and we put a pond leveler in, and they quit building, so they don’t make it bigger and bigger. And the beaver does well, and we’ve been successful at those.” They use devices called pond levelers on McCloud Creek to encourage beaver habitat and dam building but Dayley says the ponds close to town on Poison Creek along the Rail Trail are too shallow. “
Remember the City Manager of Martinez told a resident that the KNEW about pond levelers but felt they wouldn’t work in Martinez. And uh, 11 years of safe beaver habitat says they were wrong.
Just saying.
Beaver friend Ulrich Messlinger sent me a copy of the new beaver book they are publishing in German “Entdecke die Biber” and wondered if I thought a translated version would be appreciated by American youth. I had fun reading it and told him yes of course. but couldn’t help sharing this one swiped image from it about beaver rehab. I have no permission to share this but couldn’t resist because I believe it is the sweetest beaver picture in the known world.
