Mar 08 2009
Don’t Tell North Carolina They Don’t Know How to Manage Beaver
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has been getting some blowback from criticizing the use of $650,000 in Federal tax dollars to pay for beaver management in Mississippi and North Carolina and it has beaver seekers in an uproar, including Congressman David Price (D-NC-4).
State and federal wildlife officials claim to have saved nearly $5 million last year in potential flood damage to farms, timber lands, roadways and other infrastructure through its Beaver Management Assistance Program — the same
“Maybe you should ask him how much he knows about this and why he picked it out for ridicule,” said U.S. Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat. “We know why he chose this — because it sounds funny.”
I imagine it’s been some time since Price trapped his own beaver, so his frustration is understandable.
I am no wildlife expert so I am not going to attempt to downplay their claim. It may very well be accurate, but the question I raise is why isn’t North Carolina paying for this themselves? Bringing home the pork obviously didn’t help former Senator Dole, now did it.
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Beavers were introduced in Eastern North Carolina. They are not native and they have been exceedingly destructive. I am not normally they type to ask gubbermint for help, however, I believe it was ‘helping’ gubbermint that put them here as a “restoration project”. Either bad information or sloppy research put them here.
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Duh! Longroad!
Beavers are not an introduced species in NC. Perhaps your limited familiarity with such would lead you to ASSUME so.
Either bad information or sloppy research lead you to your statement.
PffT! you said ‘beaver’.
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