Kill the beaver! Save the salmon!
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:53 am
Wait - which one???
Sierra beaver dams targeted by U.S. Forest Service
By Tom Knudson
tknudson@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
LAKE TAHOE – To Sherry Guzzi, the beaver dam on Taylor Creek was more than a watery jungle of sticks and branches.
In that snarl of debris, she saw hope for a species long regarded as non-native in the Sierra but which new research claims has occupied the range for centuries and is key to ecosystem health.
Late last month, her hope was extinguished when the U.S. Forest Service tore down the dam to protect a tourist facility celebrating a non-native species: kokanee salmon.
"They are doing all this to showcase an introduced species," said Guzzi, co-founder of the Sierra Wildlife Coalition, a local environmental group. "It's a little nuts, isn't it?"
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/07/488845 ... ed-by.html
The FS is nuts? Aunt Bee, say it ain't so!
Sierra beaver dams targeted by U.S. Forest Service
By Tom Knudson
tknudson@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
LAKE TAHOE – To Sherry Guzzi, the beaver dam on Taylor Creek was more than a watery jungle of sticks and branches.
In that snarl of debris, she saw hope for a species long regarded as non-native in the Sierra but which new research claims has occupied the range for centuries and is key to ecosystem health.
Late last month, her hope was extinguished when the U.S. Forest Service tore down the dam to protect a tourist facility celebrating a non-native species: kokanee salmon.
"They are doing all this to showcase an introduced species," said Guzzi, co-founder of the Sierra Wildlife Coalition, a local environmental group. "It's a little nuts, isn't it?"
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/07/488845 ... ed-by.html
The FS is nuts? Aunt Bee, say it ain't so!