Beavers

Beavers and snakes

Martinez was the Bay Area’s place to be on Saturday, as evidence by the thousands that flooded into Downtown to attend one or all of the day’s happenings. The August Peddlers’ Faire blossomed along Main Street, bringing eye candy and wallet-thinning selections to antique and collectible lovers of all creeds.more...

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Martinez [hearts] Beavers

IN THE WAKE OF MOMMA BEAVER

This week employees at the County Clerk-Recorder Building on Escobar posted construction paper hearts with condolence messages, on a fence adjacent to the beaver lodge, after the colony’s matriarch was euthanized on June 26. On Friday, beaver supporters held an impromptu memorial service. The female beaver was deemed terminally ill after she suffered a broken incisor tooth, preventing proper feeding. Five beavers remain at the home in Alhambra Creek, the patriarch, a bi-yearling and three new kits.more...

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New kits now motherless

After surviving near execution, relocation threats, heavy construction and the birth of 15 babies, the matriarch of the Martinez beavers was euthanized over the weekend. 

Vets at U.C. Davis are currently conducting a necropsy on the late beaver to discover the underlying illness that caused the beaver to stop eating and lose a significant amount of weight over the past two weeks.more...

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A new generation of beavers arrive

The famous Martinez Beavers have welcomed at least two new family members, captured on film as daylight broke on Wednesday at their downtown pond. more...

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Council to review MSM contract

Meeting Preview

Starting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday evening’s meeting at City Hall will begin with a joint session of the Council and the Planning Commission.

When the Council reconvenes at 7 p.m., a new police officer, Miles Williamson, will be sworn in and Sergeant Jon Sylvia presented with an award before the Council turns its attention to a bi-annual update from Main Street Martinez and sign a $47,5000 contract for another year of “Professional Services” provided by Main Street Martinez.more...

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Beaverfest: Kids have a dam good time

The local advocacy group Worth-A-Dam collected over $2,500 in donations during the second annual Beaver Festival last Saturday. From 12:30 to 6:30 p.m., an estimated 800 visitors — from all over the Bay Area and beyond — descended on Martinez in hopes of catching a glimpse of the elusive beavers and participated in a variety of beaver-related tours, games and activities.more...

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No sight of beavers at end of day one of creek stabilization project

$375,000 job funded by 2005 Texaco settlement.

Members of Worth-A-Dam knew they were in for a noisy day yesterday when Don Salts of the City’s Public Works department offered them earplugs, said beaver advocate Jon Ridler.

Once construction on the Alhambra Creek Emergency Stabilization project (next to Bertola’s) began around 7 a.m., the clamorous pounding of sheet piles into the creek’s east bank began and the beavers disappeared.more...

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