Do you remember last July when I posted about it being time to hire a lobbyist for beavers? At the time shared an article about Jennifer Fearing and suggested that sometimes you need someone on the front lines in Sacramento to make this happen. Well it’s happening. Yesterday I got a request from Ms. Fearing to support the OAEC letter on 30 x 30 and today’s she’s in Mike’s McPhate’s California newsletter.

5 questions with …

… Jennifer Fearing, a Sacramento-based environmental and animal rights advocate.

I’d also like to see California bring back beavers, amazing animals that bring enormous, urgently needed benefits to the state’s water challenges, habitats for endangered species, and climate change impacts. Nature’s engineers are native to California, but since the “fur rush” that preceded the race for gold nearly wiped them out, beavers have been treated as nuisance animals under California law and policy. I’m grateful to California scientists and beaver believers like Dr. Emily Fairfax who are making the case and communicating it to the public and decision makers.

There it is.  In a nutshell In the most must-read news source in the golden state, I hope she gets paid well to keep saying that over and over,

But maybe not the BRING BACK BEAVERS part. Because they’re obviously already back, you know, In more than 29 of the states 58 counties they’re back enough to be killed as nuisances. I would say the cat is outta the big and the genie is officially outta the bottle. Maybe it’s time the language could be tweaked to “WELCOME BACK BEAVERS”. Because that’s what California needs to do.

Realize once and for all that beavers are like little piggy banks of resources and when they show up anyway be really, reallyhappy about it.