https://therevelator.org/community-powered-restoration/
"Late last February I joined a group of volunteers to deliver a family of
beavers to a creek in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southern
Oregon. Snow blanketed the ground, glittering in the winter sun as we strapped
on snowshoes.
Jakob Shockey, founder of the nonprofit Project Beaver, called out, “Who wants
to carry a beaver?” Five of them — mom, dad, and three offspring — rested
beside him, each safely ensconced in a canvas bag for their protection.
Volunteers helped each other strap the bags onto frame packs. The adult beavers
weighed nearly 60 pounds, and the unwieldy packages bulged awkwardly, but the
animals didn’t stir once strapped in place.
Once abundant, beavers were mostly trapped out of the Cascade-Siskiyou region
over a century ago. As they disappeared, so did the verdant mountain meadows
they helped maintain.
Project Beaver has been working with Bureau of Land Management biologists,
nonprofits, private landowners, and dozens of volunteers to bring beavers back
to this landscape. But first they needed to make conditions more hospitable.
“There are so many hands and hearts that have gone into cutting branches,
dragging them down to the creek, planting willows in spring and fall,” says
Jeanine Moy, director of the Vesper Meadow Education Program, which operates on
private land nearby.
It had taken six years to set the table for the beaver family. Now, we all
hoped, these expert engineers would go to work transforming fields into the wet
meadows they once were.
We set off for the creek in a ragged train, snowshoes crunching against the
snow."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-reading-oaxaca-low-tech-drought-fixes/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
