New requirements for controlling beaver population
Under the new guidelines, landowners are asked to wrap each beaver’s tail and right front foot in a clear plastic wrap or freezer bag and freeze until collection day. Also different this year is the amount paid for each beaver.
“In order to increase the landowner’s allotment, the bounty price was cut from $12.50 to $10 per tail and foot,” Sandy Mitchell with the Natural Resources Conservation Service told the Daily Corinthian.
This is the new USDA beaver management plan from Mississippi. It is part of the lovingly titled “Natural Resources Conservation Service.” Residents of Alcorn county have to sign up by November 27th to be eligible. Last year the death squad paid for 382 beaver tails. This in the smallest county in Mississippi with only 1.46 square miles of water. Which probably means some of those getting paid had harvested beavers from other areas, or passed off cow tongues as beaver tails with freezer burn.
I’m curious how many times has Alcorn been a recipient of FEMA money because of drought? It was one of 27 counties that got drought relief last year.
Which is kind of perfect if you think about it. The government pays residents to kill the water-savers and then the government pays those same residents for suffering a drought. Federal employees always have a job.
Do not, for a moment, forget that we’re at war.
I pledge allegiance to the streams, and the beaver ponds of America. And to the renewal for which they stand One river, underground, irreplaceable, With habitat and wetlands for all.
