Emily Fairfax

I would love to see more formal programs to compensate people for when they allow beavers to come back because they are doing a service for other folks as well.

A beaver on my land would help all my downstream neighbors with pollution, and that should be acknowledged financially.

110, but absolutely not.

In some ways, it's probably the worst animal for us to have to relinquish control to because we already have this...

primate brain fear of rodents.

And we see them and we're like, oh, it's bad.

I don't want it to be there.

And then nature has basically taken a rodent and made it enormous.

And then we also have this primate brain fear of wetlands because we're not particularly well suited for them.

It's hard for us to navigate them.

So nature takes this gigantic rodent and puts it in a wetland.

And then it's the biggest prank for it to be like, surprise, here's your number one ally.

Make friends.

This does feel like a Pixar movie.

Yeah, I think there's a reason they picked beavers.

Working with Pixar was truly a once in a lifetime experience.

And I did a lot of things with them.

Some of them were very familiar.

I gave talks about beavers.

I do that all the time.