Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast Inside Rail. I am thrilled to be sitting with

returning guest Jacob Shockey, who is the founder and director of Project Beaver. Some of you

will remember that we did a prior episode on Beaver Ecology. I've learned a ton from Jacob about

that amazing topic. As fascinated as I was before, I was stunned by what I learned.

We are going to talk about a bunch of new issues regarding beavers.

But before we get to that, let me just say first, thank you for joining me and welcome

to Dark Horse.

Thanks for having me.

There's a story before we get to the Beaver Ecology that I think viewers of this podcast will be fascinated by.

You have been doing your work in the nonprofit world and your organization stumbled at the point. Well, maybe you should tell the story of what happened to

the Beaver Coalition, the initial presentation of your organization. Yeah, so we were the Beaver

Coalition. We, I left my job doing restoration work and started this nonprofit.

And in March of 2020, which was a great time to start a new endeavor.

But we had a lot of momentum.

We were doing little interviews with folks that would land in National Geographic and such and

attracting a lot of attention. And then at some point, I got a hold of you guys and said,

hey, you need to come see a Beaver Wetland. At the time you're living in Portland, and

viewers will be familiar with that.

We'll drag you out into the beaver wetland.

Afterward, Heather published a piece about beavers on her substack.

And at the very end of that piece, she said something like, if folks are interested in learning more about beavers, there's a nonprofit nonprofit started by a former student and friend.

Go check it out, the Beaver Coalition.

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