Beavers back in Southborough
For the second year in a row, the town will hire trappers to take care of beavers building dams off Cordaville Road near the Ashland town line. “They’re back,” Public Works Superintendent Karen Galligan told the Board of Health last week.
I guess the nice thing about a city that makes the same mistake over and over again is that you save so much money on reporter time. Just run the same story you wrote last year, and dig up that photo from 2011. Heck, I’m sure you’re hiring the same trapper with the same taxpayer funds. I can even send my same letter to Karen and the reporter that I did last year and the year before that. We all save time.
(New money though. That trapper will want to be paid in real dollars, not a xerox of last years dollars.)
Hey! I have an idea! What if Southborough invested an ounce of prevention instead of a pound of cure? 75 miles away from Beaver Solutions you could hire Mike to install a flow device that fixes this problem for the next decade. Then the beavers could stay and use their own territorial behaviors to keep others away. Don’t like the idea of paying money for someone out of town? Then spend a pittance here or here and learn how to fix the problem yourself. Think of all the free time you’d have to do the work once you stop presenting your case to the board of healthy and whining to the media.
The money quote:
Health members again granted a permit to trap beavers, remarking that they wished there was something else that could be done to keep the beavers from coming back.
Obviously you just need to kill them EXTRA good this time. It didn’t take before. And maybe hire a more expensive trapper so they die more slowly and completely. Whatever you do, don’t waste any taxpayer dollars installing a culvert fence or a flow device or anything. Because that would just be silly.
