Calling little Artists: Send in drawings of beavers for President Biden
One of our families is heading to Washington, D.C. later this month and we’d like to send send them with a pack of letters from Oregon: It’s time to bring back beavers!
Beavers are super watershed restoration engineers! Carbon capture & storage superheroes!
And they can do it on public lands for free…. if we stop hunting them.
Multigenerational Action Opportunity!
Did you know that protecting beavers is an important nature-based climate solution? That’s right, they repair degraded ecosystems, create habitat, and increase carbon capture and storage. And they do this by doing just what beavers do! That’s why we’re joining voices from around the Northwest to advocate for policy that will help bring beaver populations back to pre-colonial levels. You can learn more about that advocacy work in this KBOO story. For a deeper dive, read Ben Goldfarb’s fabulous book, “Eager,” and you’ll become a beaver advocate for life!
Here’s how you can take action on beaver-building advocacy:
Send your kids’ best beaver art to President Biden, along with a short note requesting the protection of beavers on public lands (how to send mail to the White House). Here are some templates:
You can also collect signatures from classmates, friends and neighbors
For older kids, several how-to-draw beavers tutorials can be found online. sample
Share your beaver art with us on social media by tagging us @familiesforclimate. We can’t wait to see what you make!
Sign this Change.org petition by May 31st to end beaver trapping and hunting on federally managed public lands. Help us reach our 5K goal by share it with your friends!
Let your state representatives know that you support the Beaver Believer Bill in the Oregon Legislature HB 3464, removing the “predator” designation from beavers.
Thank you!
We hope this is a fun and engaging way for kids and parents to advocate for a health future, together. Thanks to our partners around the region, especially Dr. Suzanne Fouty, who recorded a webinar about beavers with us in 2021, Western Watersheds for leading this campaign, Bark, local watershed councils and dozens of other Oregon groups calling for the restoration of pre-settlement beaver populations..
