Some readers will remember that a while ago I wrote about the beavers in birdsong park in Orchard, New York. The residents wanted to coexist and the city wanted the opposite. Well the residents eeked a very mild lions and whpromise out of the city council tp listen to their possible solution and while they backs were turned the “village” trapped them anyway. Or possibly on their behalf. You decide.
What’s the dam problem? Town of Orchard Park officials and residents discuss beavers occupying local park
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — Town leaders in Orchard Park answered people’s questions about what happened to the beavers at Birdsong Park Nature Trail, Thursday evening.7 News first told you about this story on October 16.
About 12 days after, the Orchard Park Town board had ‘okayed’ a move to remove a “nuisance beaver” from the park.
However, due to public outcry when residents realized “trapping” meant the beaver would be killed, the Town board tabled the issue to look into other alternatives.Three days later, the board officially put a halt to any plans to trap and kill the beaver.
Now, 7 News has learned that the beavers have reportedly been killed and removed from the park by the Village of Orchard Park.
Whoopsie! Wow if I were living in the city of orchard I’d be pretty pissed, And you can bet I;d be working on my FOIA request right now to see what emails or phone calls happened between the city manager and the village department of public works. Because you know it sounded something like “Who will rid me of these meddlesome beavers?”
That is why 7 News’ Pheben Kassahun headed down to do a follow-up and attend a special meeting of community members in the Town of Orchard Park, which was held at the Community Activity Center, to hear from people on all sides of this situation.
She spoke with neighbors who said they want to co-exist with the beavers and believe there is a safe way to do so.
The Town board said they are causing flooding, which is not safe for the Town which was built on wetlands to begin with, and the Department of Environmental Conservation who said killing the beavers was the only humane choice they had.
You kn0w the drill “Our hands are tied, there is nothing we can do”. Nothing except actually ask professionals and learn something new we mean. And who wants to do that?
“Myself, personally, the Town overall, had nothing to do with the actions that were taken by the Village,” Town of Orchard Park Recreation and Youth Services director, Ed Leak said.
The Town of Orchard Park has put a halt on killing the beavers in the Town.
After four beavers were reportedly trapped and killed in the Village of Orchard Park, residents in the Town of Orchard Park is wondering why
What a weaselly thing to do. I can 100% imagine that happening in Martinez. We all worked vert hard but we were still sooooo dam lucky.
