Hmm yesterday was just fine, but the internet played games with beavers and kept making us log back on. Annoying but not hopeless. I do miss hearing laughter in the audience because of the limitations of zoom. But there was one guy that lives near the golf course and says that when a beaver nibbled his willows he decided to wrap them with wire and they’ve stayed away ever since. I swear he wasn’t a ‘plant’ but he could of been. Afterwards I had three moments of very good news which was so good it kind of freaked me out a bit. I’ll tell you about that later.
Meanwhile Wyoming has been doing a heck of a job on the beaver front. This was sent to me by beaver friend Bob Kobres of Georgia who was quick on the uptake.
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Isn’t that wonderful? The very same state ran an article today about relocating beavers to improve habitat,
PHOTOS: Wyoming beavers trapped and released to help improve riparian habitat
CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said on Friday that Sheridan Region Aquatic Habitat Manager Travis Cundy trapped one adult and three yearling beavers from a private property east of Sheridan in September.
The family of beavers were released on Sourdough Creek above Buffalo on the Bighorn National Forest on October 4. Game and Fish and U.S. Forest Service staff had stocked the release site with woody vegetation, which the beavers consumed within a few days.
“Dam building by beavers can elevate the local water table, extend late-season stream flows, increase overbank flooding, and encourage new riparian vegetation growth along a stream segment that is incised or disconnected from its floodplain,” Cundy said in Game and Fish’s announcement. “One way to think about this approach is to take a green string with limited riparian area and turn it back into a green ribbon.”
Wow. Pretty impressive to see Wyoming recognize what beavers can do. Too bad it’s too hard for beaver disabled California. They have a massive handicap.
