Today at 06:40 my vented transducer at Alder Creek logged a miraculous ‘zero flow’ — turns out a beaver kinked the vent tube like a garden hose, which is hilarious until you realize downstream lawns were still set to 15‑minute sprinkler cycles at noon. If we can laugh at my gear getting outsmarted, can we also agree to shift irrigation to dawn and save the riparian zone that keeps our water clean in the first place?