Weird things you find out through procrastination.
Beavers.
I was having a hell of time getting started on writing minutes for the last board meeting, so I typed into Google "breaking the logjam of procrastination". This returned zippo, so I went for "breaking the logjam".
The seventh entry was on beavers on Butano Creek, which is about an hour from Silicon Valley on the Coast side; it contributes to the Pescadero Marsh. My sister Suz, the Lavender Farmer, lives about 10 minutes from the Creek. So I went to look.
I knew there were beavers (Castor canadensis) in the Sierras (I've seen the dams and the cool little houses they build, but I didn't know there were beavers in commuting distance of Google.
(For more about Butano Creek go here You can get maps from the Sempervirens Fund and the and the California Department of Fish and Game
There *is* an indigenous species, Aplodontia rufa, "the most primitive living rodent"; read more at the California Academy of Sciences' magazine California Wild.
People evidently are enthusiastic about beavers
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