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RE: Of Beavers and People My Actifit Report Card: January 26 2022

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I'll pass your entrance to the finals of MAcFiT Season 5 Champions League (although my congratulations), and your amazing personal record of 48K steps made in a single day (on which, I envy you a lot 😉), to jump right into the short beavers' story you brought to us, as it impressed me the most, particularly because of its very well created and managed cohabitant part with humans.

It's so good to hear that somewhere in the world (no matter where) someone was wise enough to create the conditions in which nature and the human way of life may coexist so well. That's not only #aliveandthriving but, from my point of view, even alive and empowering (maybe this is going to be new Alive tag - #aliveandempowering 😉) many could learn from.

Nonetheless, I like the photos you managed to take along your walking path! 🙂

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         3 years ago 

        thank you @ana-maria and you are absolutely right. Winning a nondescript tournament means nothing (although doing something extraordinary like doing 49k steps on working day - while my long term average is just about 20k - does matter to me). You've captured the important thing. Look at the satellite view:

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        The pin denotes the place where I spotted traces of beavers activity. South to it you see a green area - it's a city park (photo with a wooden beaver sculpture in my original post). The lakes to the north-east are artificial. Sand had been extracted to replace depleted coal in nearby mines (now closed) and the pits had been flooded. To the east, you will see a huge steelworks complex (far right-hand side of the photo, between S1 and 94 roads). If you look west - there's a coal-powered electro-plant. Look south and you see densely populated area. You would think - the is the last of places where beavers would live. Yet, wise re-cultivation and management made it possible. True, the beavers cannot do as they please - bigger trees are protected, wooden sticks in the river bottom prevent them from digging holes in places where it would have posed danger to nearby neighborhood. But within the limits, they do well. And we, humans, can enjoy "green lungs" of otherwise industrial (or post-industrial, as some mines/plants have been shut down) area.

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               3 years ago 

              Now, you really caught me with your reply! 😃
              I was intrigued enough to go and search for it on the map. By the names shown on the screenshot map that you posted here, I thought it might be somewhere in Poland, but I wasn't sure. Now I am! 🙂 It's quite close to Katowice.

              Apart from this whole beavers' story (although, it might sound strange, but I have to tell you), I am amazed how you (the Polish people) managed to get organized, accomplished fast growth and development of the whole country, hugely raised the standard (of almost every average Joe) once the iron curtain was finally pulled off and the old communist clique replaced with "fresh" people in the lead with an entirely different mindset that the ones in the previous regime.
              You wouldn't believe how often we talk and discuss it at home!

              Therefore, your beavers' story makes even more sense and it's a perfect fit for the whole picture! 😃

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                     3 years ago 

                    well, not everything is as bright as you imagine, but yes, we have made a huge leap between getting rid of the communist regime and now. The country of my childhood (pre 1989) is completely different from the country I live in now.

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                           3 years ago 

                          Yeah, I can understand that there are always some weeds among the wheat (as we would like to say in my country), and accordingly lots of room for improvement, but I was talking more about the overall picture.
                          However, I hope that the completely different country you are currently living in means different in a good way!?! 🙂

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                                 3 years ago 

                                of course! I love it here, even if the grass is greener somewhere else :-)

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                                       3 years ago 

                                      hahaha - I like your attitude! I feel the same about my country! 😃

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