I was daydreaming yesterday about the horrific vigilante law in Texas that allows friends and neighbors and gossips to turn women they suspect of seeking or helping a woman seek an abortion and collect the reward in court. It’s promotes deep mistrust under the guise of being PRO LIFE. And I thought, HEY if we could turn in friends and neighbors and cities for trapping beavers off their property or even applying for a depredation permit, and then take them to environmental court and collect the reward money which can then be used to install a flow device that would be pretty PRO LIFE too. I mean we know that beaver dams create biodiversity and store water to keep things alive so anything anyone does to threaten them destroys that right? And we’re not SO far away that any act to waste water is an act against the state, right?

Suddenly the vigilante law seemed to have more promise,

Well until those dark days come lets hope to persuade folks with lots and lots of carrots.

Support for Federal Funding for Beaver Coexistence

AWI is working to develop federal legislation that would establish a national beaver conflict-mitigation grant program to help tribes, states, agencies, local governments, landowners, conservation organizations, and others pay for nonlethal beaver-conflict solutions. More than 100 small businesses, wildlife groups, and tribes representing 33 states have joined a letter in support of this idea. In addition, some organizations and tribes have drafted separate letters of support.

That’s really good to hear. You may not know this but a million years ago when Mike Callahan was just dreaming about doing his instructional video to teach people how to install flow devices, he received a grant from AWI to make it happen. They are the power player you never hear about on the beaver stage so I hope this works out. They have a long list of supporters for this idea, which includes some folks you might know at the end.

Let’s wish them every success, although I’m kinda liking my viglante idea, swooping to drop some justice on every intolerant farmer and city manager