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Beavers? Bret Weinstein Speaks with Jakob Shockey on the Darkhorse Podcast
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The Applegate Valley, the Place of the Beaver
The Applegate Valley in southwestern Oregon has a history of gold mining. The first rush of folks through this area were the beaver trappers. They were harvesting the spoils of thousands of years of accumulated wealth behind beaver dams. And that's really what fertile valleys that we farm have done too. We drained wetlands and we uncovered this fertility. But it's the fertility. It's the vestige of this beaver kingdom. So you've got this sluicebox being produced by a rodent that has no interest in gold at all. Right.
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