Call it proof of Paul Haeder's precognition that the Wall Street Journal covered the Lands Council's amazing Team Beaver project in a front page story called "With trouble on the range, ranchers wish they could leave it to the beavers."

I can see Gordon Gekko investing in the Lands Council right now but this seriously rocks.

Reporter Joel Millman spent some time with Team Beaver during their most recent relocation and put together a pretty awesome article and video about the Lands Council and the work they've done in the past two years through The Beaver Solution.

Excerpt: The believers' beavers come from places like Tumtum, Wash., where Amanda Parrish checked beaver traps one morning early this month by the Spokane River.

"Hey, we got one over here!" shouted Ms. Parrish as she peeled back brush to check a trap she and her partner, Joe Cannon, laid the previous evening.

Caught inside a stainless steel "suitcase" trap, its rubbery tail and hindquarters sloshing in the rushing stream, a six-pound pup calmly nibbled willow twigs, seemingly oblivious to the humans and their mission.

Ms. Parrish, 25, is the team leader for The Beaver Solution, a program run by Spokane's Lands Council, a nonprofit group. The group scours lakes and streams in eastern Washington for beavers, relocating several dozen a year.

Full story HERE.

Also, this seems like as good as time as any for another plug: Please take a moment to vote for Reforest Spokane Day! They are getting closer to grasping that number one spot, and every vote counts.

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