First of all, pardon the profanity, but I am trying to pat down my hackles as I type this.
I work in Sacramento, but the college is very close to Elk Grove, which is a suburb that has pretty much exploded in the past 10 years with little-boxes-made-of-tickytacky, and Linens-n-Things conveniently located across the street from Bed Bath & Beyond (so that you have your very important choice of which specialty bed/kitchen store you want to patronize) and a drive-through Starbucks on every corner, etc etc, you know the drill. So I was interested to read an article in the Sac Bee (see if you can access the link) about how Elk Grove plans to eradicate beavers.
People, why is it that we care so much about a couple of whales (article from SFGate) but when it comes to everyday critters like beavers building their inconvenient dams and messing up the workflow of human overpopulation and urban sprawl, we don't give a crap about anything but ourselves? Kill em. Dealing with the dams takes too much of our resources.
Nevermind the point that resident Tom Russell brings up, that "When beavers are left alone, they create new ecosystems and sanctuaries for 'quite a few species of fish, turtles, snakes, animals, birds and plants' without threatening humans or safety."
Grrrr...
pant pant
Image by Zoe Cormier at Zoetic.
3 comments:
You make a good point! Beavers are the state critter of Oregon... perhaps some sort of exchange could be negotiated?
Margaret... from Oregon
oh margaret! do you think oregon will take the beavers? apparently they have considered relocating them before, but read this (from the sac bee):
"You can't find people who want to take them," Hawkins said. "California Fish and Game has attempted that at times. And nobody has stepped up and said, 'Yeah, bring me all the beavers.' "
Must ... stop ... (pant pant)myself ... from ... making ... crass ... beaver ... comment ...
aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!! I can't help it! Just bring me all the beavers! I'll step up and take them! Yes! Bring me all the beavers.
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