For the closing ceremonies of 2011 I went month by month through the website to document what Worth A Dam did this past year. Oregon, Yosemite, Sonoma, washout, Earth Day, Beaver Festival, radio Spokane, radio Michigan, radio Oregon, letters to the editor in Oklahoma, Ontario, Scotland and Maine, visits to Martinez from experts in Utah, Washington, Oregon, interviews and groundwork for Agents of Change. I worked for approximately six days on the masterpiece with links to all the articles. Alas, it was not to be.
Apparently the website took one look at my burdened html load and said NO WAY. I could see the post, but when I put it on the site it was invisible. Or, even more exciting, it was there and everything else was gone. I wandered aimlessly back through a sea of revisions looking for the missing link. At last I admitted my defeat. I gave up. There will be no BEST of 2011 post, and instead I will encourage you to scan through the archives on the left and mentally consider your own.
Then I will amuse us with the top beaver articles of 2011.
The Beavers New Brand: Eco- Saviour Globe & Mail
With Trouble on the Range, Ranchers Wish they could Leave it to Beavers Wall Street Journal
How Beavers Helped to build America Discovery News
Leave it to Beaver? High Country News
A Task that’s Flat-out perfect for Beavers Bakers City News
USFS Names beaver “Focal Species” for 2011 Washington DC
Fossilized Beaver teeth found from 7,000,000 years ago
Beaver Believers Oregon University Quarterly
Eager Beavers Engineer Ecosystems Living on Earth
Sherri Tippie Gives A Dam about Colorado’s Beaver Population Denver Westwood News
Exploring How Beavers Altered a Landscape Tom Venesky The Times Leader
A fine selection, and perhaps the best beaver year thus far. But of course the beaver discussion I most enjoyed was concerned with loftier matters in Illinois.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BEAVERS and BEAVER SUPPORTERS!!!! Don’t forget, Podcasts air on Sundays starting tomorrow!
