Emily Fairfax

And I had always loved wetlands.

I just didn't know there were jobs in wetlands.

And that documentary let me see, you know what?

These people study wetlands.

Maybe I can too.

No, you're spot on.

I was a weapons systems engineer.

So systems engineering was my domain.

And I think that that has lent itself really well to beavers because whenever you're looking at a system, whether that is something designed for destruction or something designed for restoration, there's a lot of pieces from a lot of disciplines.

And you have to learn to work with the physicists and the chemists and the biologists and the economists.

And all of those people are part of the system and understanding it.

And that was exactly the same situation with beavers.

I just liked the center of the system a lot more.

We get a lot more happy endings with beavers now than we did five years ago and way more than we did 10 years ago or 20 years ago.

We're finally appreciating them.

I'm having so many more people ask me, where can I go see the nearest beaver?

I saw hoppers and my kid wants to see real beavers.

Where do we go?

And just that openness I think is a really critical step.

We have