[Southern California Permaculture] Solstice Parade AND An Evening Celebrating Beavers-Fun & Film (Fri June 28)

Fri Jun 21 11:25:49 PDT 2019

In addition to the Beaver film event next week, don't miss the Beaver Weaver
float in the Summer Solstice parade Saturday!  and on display at Alameda
park on Saturday & Sunday.    Volunteers welcome.email if you would like to
help with puppets, or walk in the float ensemble, we can connect you with
those doing the beaver float.  

Santa Barbara Permaculture Presents

An Evening of Film & Fun

Celebrating Beavers - Climate & Ecosystem Restoration Heroes!

featuring the newly released film The Beaver Believers

with special guest artist Ray Cirino, and his beaver artwork & Summer
Solstice beaver float on display

Friday, June 28, 7-9pm  2019 

FREE, Kids Welcome!

Outdoor Event, in the patio of Bici Centro

Location: Bici Centro,  434 Olive St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (corner of
Haley & Olive St)

Join us for an evening celebrating our new climate & ecosystem heroes, the
beavers! 

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network hosts an evening of fun & film, featuring
the recently released documentary, The <https://vimeo.com/133200746>  Beaver
Believers, to be shown in the spacious outdoor patio of Bici Centro (Santa
Barbara Bicycle Coalition <http://www.sbbike.org/> ), in downtown Santa
Barbara.  Families welcome, bring your own picnic sandwiches, snacks
provided.

The Beaver Believers documentary film tells the urgent, yet whimsical story
of an unlikely cadre of activists - a biologist, a hydrologist, a botanist,
an ecologist, a psychologist and an hairdresser - who share a common vision:
restoring the North American Beaver, the most industrious, ingenious,
bucktoothed little engineer, to the watersheds of the American West.

The Beaver Believers encourage us to embrace a new paradigm for managing our
western lands, one that seeks to partner with the natural world rather
overpower it.  As a keystone species, beavers enrich their ecosystems,
creating the biodiversity, complexity, and resiliency our watersheds need so
desperately to absorb the impacts of climate change. 

Beavers can show us the way, and do much of the work for us, if only we find
the humility to trust the restorative power of nature and our own ability to
pay a positive role within it.  

Shot in eight western states, also Mexico and Canada, through desert
drought, raging wild fires and floods, and wetland tranquility, the Beavers
Believers film will change the way you think about climate change and
inspire you to think about the opportunities of working with nature for
solutions.

Most south coast residents aren't aware beavers were in our region, and some
still remaining, but when hiking in the backcountry behind Santa Barbara and
Ventura, you might come across beaver rock art done by the original native
peoples of this land, proving beaver have been here for thousands of years.
Let's welcome them back to help rehydrate the land!

Ray Cirino, local artist, has fallen in love with beaver, and will display
and share his Summer Solstice Beaver Float, and other beaver artwork.
Others are encouraged to bring artwork, poems, or favorite books about
beavers to share.  

The free event takes place on Friday, June 28, 7 - 9pm, and will be held at
Bici Centro <http://www.sbbike.org/> , 434 Olive Street, in an outdoor
courtyard (dress appropriately).  Please come early to explore the community
bike center, the beaver artwork & float, feel free to bring sandwiches,
informally picnic, some snacks provided.  The event is FREE and no
reservations are required.  More Info:  <mailto:margie at sbpermaculure.org>
margie at sbpermaculure.org;  <http://www.sbpermaculture.org>
www.sbpermaculture.org;  805-962-2571.

-This event is a part of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Civics 101
for Climate Change educational series-

Event Co-sponsors: 

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
<http://www.sbbike.org/>  (Bici Centro)

More Info:

 <http://www.sbpermaculture.org;/> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

Facebook Event Page:  <https://www.facebook.com/events/470609313701149/>
https://www.facebook.com/events/470609313701149/

Learn More:

Beaver Believers Film Trailer:

 <https://vimeo.com/133200746> https://vimeo.com/133200746

BEAVER IN CALIFORNIA: Creating a Culture of Stewardship

Booklet Download:

 <https://oaec.org/publications/beaver-in-california/>
https://oaec.org/publications/beaver-in-california/

Extensive research has recently heightened recognition of the important role
beaver (Castor canadensis) can play in watershed health and climate change
resiliency. The species' ecological services include enhanced water storage,
erosion control, habitat restoration and creation, listed species recovery,
the maintenance of stream flows during the dry summer period, and other
beneficial adaptations to our changing climate conditions

Eager, The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben
Goldfarb

In the book Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our
modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is
wrong distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers
from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers
were profound: streams eroded wetlands dried up and species from salmon to
swans lost vital habitat:    <https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/eager/>
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/eager/

THE ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF BEAVERS -  Martinez CA Beaver Festival June 29
2019 

Because the beaver isn't just an animal; it's an ecosystem:

<https://www.martinezbeavers.org/wordpress/the-ecological-benefits-of-beaver
s/>
https://www.martinezbeavers.org/wordpress/the-ecological-benefits-of-beavers
/

Beavers in Santa Barbara County:

  <https://songsofthewilderness.com/2010/12/31/beavers-among-us/>
https://songsofthewilderness.com/2010/12/31/beavers-among-us/

The historical range of beaver (Castor canadensis) in coastal California -
an updated review of the evidence:

<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264420916_The_historical_range_of_
beaver_Castor_canadensis_in_coastal_California_-_an_updated_review_of_the_ev
idence>
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264420916_The_historical_range_of_b
eaver_Castor_canadensis_in_coastal_California_-_an_updated_review_of_the_evi
dence

Beavers Used to Be Almost Everywhere in California, by Alison Hawkes:

In an interesting historical footnote mentioned in the paper, California
brought back some beavers to stem erosion from 1923-1950, bumping the
statewide population from a dwindling 1,300 in 1942 to 20,000 by 1950.

The translocations happened in 58 counties - including Marin, Napa, Contra
Costa, Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Cruz - and are thought to be responsible
for the beavers that live here today..So, it's not a crazy idea that beavers
could be brought in again to help mitigate twenty-first century problems
like climate change-induced droughts and water shortages.
<https://baynature.org/article/beavers-used-to-be-almost-everywhere-in-calif
ornia/>
https://baynature.org/article/beavers-used-to-be-almost-everywhere-in-califo
rnia/

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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
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