Is there no rest for our beavers? Are periods of hard work not followed by periods of rest? Apparently not, but they aren’t called busy for nothing. Let’s hope they stay on top of this. I already received two alarmed emails from passers-by that were worried the city (or a certain nefarious property owner) was ripping out dams! i assured them the dam-age was natural in cause, and hopefully our beavers will go onward and upward from here.
Our friends in Kings Beach did some tree painting this week (mason sand mixed with latex paint discourages chewing) to keep the hungry city folks from crying ‘beaver’ when their cottonwoods are nibbled. They stopped on the way to shake down an aspen that had been beaver-chewed but stuck in some branches. Now its nice and low and in a perfect place for eating. Ahhh its lovely to see beaver friends in the sierras. Check out their snowy dedication!
I read this in the patch police log this weekend and am still trying to figure out what it means to our beavers. Fortunately it wasn’t one of us, taking water samples or picking up trash.
Not A Drop to Drink – A man was cited for drinking from the creek near Castro and Escobar streets.
just got the original log from Daniel Cameron Smith at Patch (thank you very much!) Looks like a case of ambiguous dangling participles, but I’m going to go with drinking ‘in’ the creek as in sitting in the creek drinking a beer, not ‘from’ the creek, as in lifting the murky water to his lips! But moving violeation? really?
15:55 Susp. Person 110227034 Occurred at Castro St/Escobar St. WMA LSW BBCAP, TSHIRT DRINKING IN THE CREEK ON THE GRASSY KNOLL ABOVE THE BEAVER DAM DRAINAGE. Disposition: Moving Violation Cite.Oh, And the president asked about you last week, I thought you’d want to know.
And on a final, civic note, if you didn’t watch this last night, you really should:
