What a fantastic profile. Colorado really knocked it outta the park with BeaverCon. I can’t download the video to post it here but you should click on the photo and see it yourself.
We’ve all heard of the Marine Corps and Army Corps of Engineers, but what about the “Beaver Corps?” There is actually such a thing. NBC News’ Brad Hicks explains.
What a great interview. Rob Rich crossed my path years ago when he was working with Ben Goldfarb writing for High Country News. He commented on the website that he was really enjoying reading about our beavers. I can’t find the audio so you are going to have to click thru to the player but it is really worth it. Trust me.
Orange teeth! Vanilla butts! Architecture with twigs! Olde-timey joke books? Field naturalist, conservationist, wildlife tracker and “beaver believer” Rob Rich works with the National Wildlife Federation’s coordination of the Montana Beaver Working Group and answers all of our Castorological questions about: baby beavers, tooth tools, lodges, dams, the sound of water, the slap of a tail, who eats beaver and why, beavers in peril, in folklore, in smut books, in your neighborhood and in your dreams forever. Also: yes we discuss slang.
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Its winter and food is getting harder to come by.
Wing it Wildlife
A North American Beaver in the mist feeds at its extensive Winter food supply next to it lodge along an icy northern USA river on a foggy morning. Save our Beavers and their works for the utmost biodiversity.
If I ever doubt that we are in a different beaver world than the one I grew up in, remind me to look at this photo. This is Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, It was posted by Ben himself so I know its real.
Ben Goldfarb:
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) displays his impeccable taste in environmental literature. Next up: a senate subcommittee on beaver restoration?
Do you know what this means? It means Michael Bennet knows about Martinez and our beavers and ME!
Closer to home KPFA ran a nice beaver interview yesterday with some local champions.
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature.
