My beaver lino block print is hand printed on delicate, translucent, handmade Japanese paper with a deckle edge. This is a North American beaver (Castor canadensis), symbol of Canada.
April 7 is International Beaver Day. While a species of “least concern” according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, numbers of NA beavers have been literally decimated since colonization. 🧵1/2
Got no cat so no Caturday, but gotta lotta #MarshMadness options, so here are a couple shots showing the local #Beaver works. They do not show the scale of the complex but it’s impressive. #GetOutside#Hiking
It was the first time in my life that I saw this animal. When I was young, it was extinct in our landscapes. We were probably both equally astonished. He or she had an incredibly friendly appearance. And was so beautiful. https://www.cronenburg.net/encounters/
Thanks @canyakker for helping with the tracks!
S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser et al., #Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle #Pleistocene hominins, #SciRep 13, 2023. 🔓
❄️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 2023 - Title:
🔴 "Depending on what time you get
to his party, Allan has made a
gift for you or a snack for him."
🟡 "Je nachdem, wann Du zu seiner
Party kommst, hat Allan ein
Geschenk für Dich oder einen
Snack für ihn vorbereitet." 🪵🦫 #StreetArt#Art#Chalkart#Crafting #UrbanArt#SidewalkChalk#Beaver
Be the beavers you wish to see in the world.
"#Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison visits #beaver dams talks about how beavers are the worlds greatest #ecosystem engineers. He journeys to different permaculture sites in Oregon to see how these sites are actually mimicking the hydrologic and ecosystem effects of the beavers, as well as shows never-before-seen footage from large scale water harvesting projects in Rajasthan, India, and breaks down some simple take-away points for how we can design our landscapes to function for humans and the #ecology. We can step into our role as a beneficial #keystone species and heal the planet with #ponds!" https://youtu.be/43bmtqKDhBE