It is understandable, the Atascadero Mutual Water Company is tired of removing couches and shopping carts out of the river bed, saying they pull about a dozen of each out each week! Yikes. The homeless encampment along the river is getting large, cutting holes in their fences, using the river as their bathroom. The Atascadero […]
Why do fish like Beaver Ponds?
I am not a scientist, but it’s easy to see that cool water fish would need these deep pools and upwelling waters of beaver dams. It will be exciting to track this throughout the heat of the summer. Stay tuned!
“Jewel” of a Beaver Complex
What a treat, I got to show our beaver dam to Dr. Emily Fairfax, Assistant Professor, California State University Channel Islands, Environmental Science and Resource Management. She was the researcher that studied large-scale wildfires and beaver habitat and made a great stop-motion video demonstrating her findings. It was so fun to walk around the beaver […]
Dam Mystery!?
My friend Amalia Galpert and I went to the river this past week to see what was happening. (We stayed 6′ apart the whole time!) Not sure what those beavers are up to right now, they still haven’t rebuilt the dam that washed out back in mid-March! We found lots of exposed bank dens, some […]
Go Beavers Go
My musical friend and fellow Beaver Believer, Roberto Monge, created a song for the beavers. I love it. Here it is… Here are the words, so we can all sing along when we march in parades for the Beavers 🙂 Go Little Beaver go Go little beaver and dam it The water it’s precious Go […]
Beavers and Isolation
Luckily we happen to get to “Shelter In Home” while friends have their camper-home camped at our place. Sheltering at home with others is really great, by the way. We’ve been visiting the beaver dams in the mornings this past week. The rains were enough to wash out a section of the dam, water level […]