The official word from the city engineer is that the three “notches” in the birm are intentional outlets to allow the high waters to flow back to the creek and to allow high tide to flow up to the plain and create a wetlands. Yes it sounds fishy to me too. And speaking of fishy, somebody better dump a load of mosquito fish in all that standing water because they are having a breeding party over there.
PS If that’s a “notch” I completely understand why they wanted to “notch the dams”.
Positive news: I’m off this morning to Rona Zollinger’s ESA class to talk about beavers and their effect on the habitat. I’m hoping we can work out a regular ESA appearance on the blog, and apparently two students have already signed up to be on a committee with us. How cool is that? Wish me luck…
Update:
Met with 24 members of America’s future and talked beavers for an hour. Great group of kids, very attentive and interested, and lots of informative questions. We have three new “volunteers” that will get an hour a week of class time to work on our “cause”. I gave them tee-shirts and all three had donned them before I left. Rona did a great job of getting them down to work, and had each of them say something they got out of the lecture before I left. I heard a lot of “I never knew that before” and also some very genuine compliments from some tough looking critics who remarked “That really made me pay attention the whole time, and I usually don’t”.
Thanks Rona. The next step will be deputizing your students to do this training program for the lower grades. Can’t wait.
