Merest coincidence? I’m thinking not. Google how many accusations there are of plagiary against the WSJ, the prominence Worth A Dam has in the recent New York Times articles and interview and the fact that you can’t swing a dead trapper without hitting one of our references on the internet – and I’m going to boldly accuse them of kidnapping. I suppose they could argue that the fact that they added a question mark slightly alters the meaning – thus protecting the use. But sheesh. When people steal from this website why don’t they steal the GOOD stuff?
British Beavers Gnaw Their Way Back, but Are They Worth a Dam?
Yet the Otter’s beavers are multiplying, and the mystery of how the rotund rodents came to Coleridge’s “wild streamlet of the West” has fanned the flames of a national beaver conflict.
That decadelong fight has pitted biodiversity advocates against anglers and landowners, leaving at least a dozen beavers dead and countless willow trees chewed.
Things are looking up for the beavers. Their population has grown to an estimated 212 in the U.K. wild.
And while the government last year decreed that the River Otter’s beavers should be removed, early this year it ruled they could stay, though it didn’t bar landowners from killing them.
Beaver believers say the species could help restore England’s countryside to something like before medieval policies encouraged exterminating animals that competed with people for land or food. Advocates say beavers fell trees that choke streams and build dams that improve wetlands for fish and other animals.
Hardly, says angler advocate Mr. Owen. Beaver dams may block trout from spawning in streams like the River Otter, where fish already struggle with river otters, he says. And chewed trees are “a health-and-safety risk for anglers.”
Oh puleeze. The country shouldn’t have beavers because a tree might fall on my friends is not an argument any one older 12 should ever have. Here’s an idea. If WSJ is looking to steal something from this website why not steal the many papers quoted where it says that BEAVERS HELP SALMON AND TROUT. And the part where it says over and over that British anglers are big whiny babies who have their eyes and ears covered when it comes to the actual research and say “lalala don’t tell me I don’t want to hear it!”
Or you know. Do an ounce of research through your OWN WSJ archives and be reminded of that great article about the Land’s Council written a few years back. You know the one that by Joel Millman about how Ranchers are on a waiting list to get beavers on their property because they’re so important for water?
Just so you know. I plan of having new ideas every week. Make sure you keep checking the website to see if there are more useful things to steal.
