Because the beaver isn't just an animal; it's an ecosystem!


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The very best part of hosting a beaver festival is that you get to talk to many many people about their beaver stories either what they believe that is wrong or what is their memory of beavers in their land growing up.

Sometime you learn about beaver issues happening right now in their town and maybe it’s a town you didn’t know had beavers or a town that is notorious for not tolerating beavers and they and heir friends came to the festival because they want to learn how to help.

And sometimes you meet a coupled who photographed what ;looks like a beaver-chewed tree right outside starbucks in your own town and you happen to tell Moses who happens to stay up all night to investigate.

That looks really familiar. But it couldn’t be could ? After all these years? On the night of the beaver festiva? I mean, what are the odds?

Okay that;s just some animal swimming in the water right? Maybe it’s a muskrat or a someone’s black lab. Don’ just jump to conclusions that it’s a beaver Right?

Guess what he filmed next that night in Alhambra Creek under the bridge at Starbucks?

It’s hard oto see a first. It’s poorly lit and very grainy but I’ll be dammed that’s an adult beaver climbing onto the mud at Starbucks. here is zero doubt that we have at least one at the moment.

Keep your eyes on the creek. I’s summer and there’s only puddles of water along the the streambed. We know if he’s all along or has friend or is looking for friends. Le’s see if he decides to change things.

Stay Tuned,.


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Yesterday was a glorious fire hydrant of crowds sites and sounds. I I slept 11 hours and Jon is still in bed, I will show you a little of the day from visitor Thomas Kempel who posted these on facebook.

You will not believe Amy’s finished piece. I swear it made the entire park feel cooler.

I believe Winston said it best when he said,

“Never was so much owed by so many, to so few.”


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This was an incredible unexpected gift yesterday. Click Play below on the black stripe for an unbelievable treat.

This is as far as Amy got on day 1. Come tomorrow and see the finished piece.


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Late breaking donation last night from the Hoppers crew, including a movie poster signed by the creator and producer themselves! And an art of Hoppers book and dancing King George. But I was most pleased to see that Bay City News finally came through and there is a great article in SF Gate and Patch.

Martinez Beaver Festival Returns To Contra Costa County

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA — Even the March release of “Hoppers,” a film by Emeryville-based Pixar about a feisty group of beavers (now streaming!) cannot change the fact that the beaver capital of the world in the East Bay is not in Emeryville, but in Martinez.

I like the way that sounds. The center of the world in just the East Bay? Sniff. I think NOT.

The beloved Martinez Beavers of Alhambra Creek moved into the creek in 2006 and despite plans by some concerned officials to evict them, some remain there today, adored and revered by Martinez residents and many others. The popular whiskered ones even have their own festival.

On Saturday, the 17th edition of Beaver Fest runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Susana Park, at Susana and Estudillo streets in Martinez. The event features a parade, an 18-piece jazz band, a huge, stocked aquarium, displays of wildlife, and assorted presentations devoted to science, nature and more. Organizers are promising — wait for it — a dam good time. No word on whether they will offer chunks of wood to nibble on.

Admission is free.
More information is at martinezbeavers.org.

OKay Jon’s off to the park to help Amy get set up and blow the pine needles off the deck, and we are almost ready for prime time.

If you are free today come watch Amy get started in the park. It’s a wonder to behold. April did a fantastic job on our sandwich sign board for the big day.

 

 

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