Sarah’s Reviews > Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter > Status Update
Sarah
is on page 139 of 304
"Conservation biologists refer to the notion of shifting baselines syndrome, a form of long-term amnesia that causes each successive generation to accept its own degraded ecology as normal. ... Every year our standards slip a little further; every year we lose more and remember less."
:( Ugh, this hurts my soul.
— Jan 23, 2025 06:45AM
:( Ugh, this hurts my soul.
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Sarah
is on page 146 of 304
"According to a 2013 study published by geomorphologist Ellen Wohl, active beaver complexes on twenty-seven streams in Rocky Mountain National Park once stored more than 2.6 million megagrams of carbon - by my calculations, the equivalent of thirty-seven thousand acres of average American forests."
Beavers rock
— Jan 24, 2025 07:32AM
Beavers rock
Sarah
is on page 142 of 304
“a man so committed to preserving California’s dwindling runs that he once attended a county meeting in a home-sewn coho costume and angrily spawned orange pom-poms across the desk of a conservation-averse commissioner.”
LOL. I would have liked to see that
— Jan 23, 2025 07:25PM
LOL. I would have liked to see that
Sarah
is on page 10 of 304
“Over eight hours a parade of tribal, federal, and university scientists - clad almost exclusively in flannel, the customary uniform of northwestern biologist-“
Um, I think you mean ALL biologists
— Dec 17, 2024 04:14PM
Um, I think you mean ALL biologists
