Farmers along the Rideau River near Ottawa say that an uncontrolled beaver population is threatening their land.
Farmers along the Rideau River near Ottawa are waging war on the beaver, the proud and mighty symbol of Canadian national pride that landowners say has become a pest whose exploding population and massive dams have destroyed trees and flood valuable farmland.
“We’re losing lots of land. The water backed up three or four acres on both sides of the creek now,” farmer Frank Campbell told the CBC. He is one of 60 farmers who have banded together to pay trappers up to $1,200 apiece to tear down dams and capture beavers.
The beaver population along the river has been allowed to run wild in recent years, thanks in part the farmers say to the fact that the price for beaver pelts has fallen from $150 to just $20.
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‘Dawgoned buck toothed, dentally defective rat!’ It won’t go away.
I couldn’t resist this short news story. It makes my day.
The next headline will likely read “Trudeau’s dentally defective rat under sustained attack.”
I approve. The polar bear is a much better symbol of what we are — quiet, unassuming but don’t make the mistake of tangling with us. That has always been Canada and it remains so this day.
“A rat?”
Give me a break. Only Trudeau could have come up with that as he paddled his canoe “everywhere”. Sorta like Jimmy Carter and the “rabbit attack“. The beaver slapped his tail alongside the canoe and Trudeau (after he he got over his heart palpitations) decided that the beaver truly scared him.
A great national symbol (so he thought) and stuck us with it. Just more of the gift that keeps on giving and far from what Canada is this day. Color “Trudeau’s rat” gone.
Like the party he represented.
Bears “r” us!
Jack, it’s not ” nice “, and maybe it’s just me, and not a comment about anything specific to this story or a certain EX P.M. …… but, that beaver sort of has an expression that strangely reminds me of Paul Martin’s face ?