It’s a beaver day brimming with news. Starting with the Denver bike-path that knows it needs beaver help. Something tells me contact has already been made but I wrote them how to reach Sherri Tippie and here’s hoping things will be easily resolved soon. It’s her home town, so they should know the right things to do already.

Denver bike commuters can blame beavers for trouble on the Cherry Creek trail

Yesterday I touched base with the beaver watcher who alerted everyone in Sonoma, Robert Burkart. I remembered how upset and helpless we felt when our city did similar things to our beaver dam and I thought he’d want to hear from a supporter. Like I expected, he was really concerned by the what he saw happen to the habitat that he had come to care about. He passed along this video of part of the destruction.

Does this look like a ‘notch’ to you?

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Of course not. It never does.

Good news. Beavers fix things when we break them. Robin Ellison of Napa went by yesterday and took this photo of the cleanup.

And harking back to our story-telling conversation, this POWERFUL video spoke to me yesterday. It was shared by Dr. Travis Longcore who is a professor at UCLA and author of the Management by Assertion paper.  I could NOT watch this video and fail to think how amazing it would be to have a similar short piece using a child’s voice to explain why beavers matter. I have already spoken to some film making friends about just that, fingers crossed…