Wow.

Yesterday was a blast of beaver education and what did I learn? First and foremost I learned that California is the slack-jawed yokel of the beaver world. Did you know that New Mexico is going to outlaw trapping on public lands? Or that Montana counted the beaver population? Or that Idaho BLM was relocating beavers to improve habitat? No you did not. Because we’re just stupid California people who only know how to surf and check our cell phones and trap beavers for eating our avocado trees,

When they were handing out beaver brains we were at the end of the line, baby. the very end.

Lucky for us they were willing to share some of their education. This was presented yesterday by Mark Beardsley of Ecometrics in Colorado. I will share more when it’s available.

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And our own bright spot in California, Dr. Emily Fairfax, is on science Friday today,

Beavers Build Ecosystems Of Resilience

You heard this report already, first on Colorado public radio and then on All things Considered, but it’s sweet to see it on science Friday.  Emily presented her latest research yesterday on the new mega fires that she thought might render beaver habitat useless. Guess what? I

They don’t.