"Thank you for such a beautiful piece in " Precious Metalheads " (November 2025). There were tears streaming down my face as I read it. I couldn't attend the festival, but it sounded incredible. I'm currently in the process of purchasing a building with a couple of other folks in my town that will be used mainly as a music venue and community art space. I hope we can draw inspiration from the Firekeepers Alliance and do something as impactful for the youth in our community."
"Ponding behind beaver dams provides cover, food and slack water for the young salmon to thrive. They also improve groundwater levels and generate hyporheic flows, which tend to stabilize the water temperatures. They tend to regulate flows by storing water during high flows and slowly releasing it during periods of low flows. They reconnect the streams with their floodplains, which improves this buffering effect and also improves the riparian habitat for both vegetation and other wildlife."
Kira Hannum describes emotional reaction to a music festival and plans to purchase a building with partners to create a music venue and community art space inspired by the Firekeepers Alliance to support local youth. Jim Shepherd recommends adding beavers to watershed restoration, explaining ponding behind beaver dams provides cover, food and slack water for juvenile salmon, improves groundwater and hyporheic flows that stabilize temperatures, regulates flows by storing and releasing water, reconnects streams to floodplains, and enhances riparian habitat and fire resilience. Beavers continuously maintain dams, dig canals, and create multi-threaded channels. Portland, Oregon's water is not fluoridated and never has been.
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