The Animal's Nature
Authorities in Bakersfield, California have decided to kill a local
beaver because it has a tendency to gnaw trees.
When asked why officials couldn't just relocate the little vandal,
they said that is not an option because the animal's nature is to
stop the flow of water, which could ruin an irrigation canal or
destroy more trees at another location.
You might be thinking that they could choose a release site without an
irrigation canal, but that wouldn't really help. Any site suitable for
a beaver would need to have trees, and is therefore disqualified from
consideration.
In other news, "Oregon State University has disputed the findings of
state geologists who said clearcut logging on university land led to a
landslide that recently swept through homes and temporarily closed
U.S. 30 near Clatskanie."
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