Meet Matthew Morabito, a young man looking for an Eagle Scout project in Monroe CT and interested in helping some neighbors with a big problem. Apparently one fellow had ripped out the dam to prevent flooding on his land and ended up sending the water onto another property. (Not a good way to make friends.) So Matthew talked to the locals and a friendly zookeeper and looked on the internet (obviously everywhere but HERE or HERE or HERE or, you know – Wikipedia) and decided to party like it was 1999 and update the Clemson Pond Leveler X 5.
Well Matthew, you had a lot of folks involved in keeping a pretty beautiful dam, and it looks like the water level should drop. I can’t imagine how you came up with this particular plan but “A” for effort and if you ever want to manage a beaver dam again, give me a call.
On a related note I heard from Wikipedia Rick this weekend that the presentations from the 2010 Santa Clara Creeks Coalition Conference Conference are online. You can see Rick’s presentation on historical beaver prevalence or Matt Stoecker’s fantastic Beyond Searsville presentation. They weren’t sure how to deal with my video extravaganza so they didn’t include media in my talk. I thought that needed changing so I’m working on getting this finished. Here’s part I if you’re interested.
