It’s a funny thing. You make a fancy ravioli dinner for 12 of your closest beaver friends and you spend the evening chatting about the first East Coast beaver conference or repeated train rides to sacramento to get the governor to back the right legislation or countless meetings with the watershed association and fish and game to replant creek or remastering the renaissance style of painting directly with eggshell and you feel like the world is pretty close to getting it right. It’s all within reach, and you are sitting with the right group of people to reach it.
And then you get up in the morning and read an article like this, and realize how far we truly have left to travel.
Beavers create travel headache for southeast Muhlenberg residents
MUHLENBERG COUNTY, Ky. (1/3/20) — The beaver population in southeastern Muhlenberg County has created a dam issue along Mud River Union Road.
There are approximately 50 residents who live at the end of the county road, where a nearby creek flows into Mud River. It appears water is across a section of the road about a half-mile leading to the homes, which makes travel difficult.
Muhlenberg County Judge-Executive Curtis McGehee said this week that the issue was brought to his attention during his tenure as sheriff a few months ago. He is speaking to road department officials and magistrates about hiring a beaver trapping expert to help remedy the issue.
Until the beavers are under control in that area, there’s not a whole lot officials can do.
It takes a judge to kill a beaver in Kentucky?
Well, I guess a flow device is right out then, your honor? I mean if you’re going to falsely incarcerate thousands, bemoan the closing coal plants and shut down all the women’s clinics, then progressively managing beavers is impossible. Right?
Too bad for Muhlenberg. Because this whole flooding this is going to happen again. Soon.
