Ever wonder why beavers are called “eager” or why they gnaw saplings – even larger trees – to build their dams and lodges? Find out when Connecticut DEEP Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple presents the basics of this keystone species, including their biology, behavior, history, and unique role as nature’s engineers. Beaver ponds and wetlands shape the North American landscape and help fight environmental problems from water pollution to erosion and climate change.

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Sponsored by Granby Public Library and Granby Land Trust.

About the presenter:
A native Texan, Ginny Apple was one of the first full-time women sportswriters in the country, who left the field mid-career to pursue a path in communications/public relations.

Through the years she has hiked, climbed, kayaked, skied and poked her way through the outdoors and developed a passion for all things natural. A move to the middle of the woods in Barkhamsted over a 15 years ago brought her into an environment filled with bears and other wildlife. Living in a house surrounded by Peoples State Forest, she observes a large population of Black Bears and supplies field notes and photographs on them to DEEP bear biologists. Her affinity for this magnificent creature led her out west to participate in a Grizzly research mission in Montana and to become a Master Wildlife Conservationist with the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Ginny Apple’s focused expertise is on Bears, Bobcats, Bald Eagles, Beavers and Coyotes, athough she volunteers on numerous wildlife projects, including helping with necropsies on road kill animals and gives talks on a variety of other animals and birds.

She is a member of the Barkhamsted Conservation and Economic Development Commissions, on the Boards of the Farmington River Watershed Association, the Friends of American Legion and Peoples State Forests (FALPS), the Friends of Connecticut State Parks and volunteers regularly with the Barkhamsted Historical Society (BHS) and maintains the Town’s Facebook page as well as that of FALPS and BHS. Just to keep her creative juices percolating, she has a side business, Murder Without Pain, where she writes murder mystery games based on historical subjects and runs them at country inns, corporate parties and fundraisers.