And on the day the phase ‘flimsy excuse’ were reinvented, we stood in awe and watched.
No solution for beaver activity
MOUNTAIN HOUSE — As activity by a family of Mountain House beavers increases along the banks of the community creek, local officials say the animals are not yet in jeopardy of being exterminated.
According to Doug Louie, superintendent of operations and maintenance, it’s going to be two to three years before officials can take any type of action regarding the beavers.
“We understand beavers will always be there,” he said Tuesday, days after residents began posting photos of a few beaver-damaged trees in the Altamont Village area of the Mountain House Creek.
The response to the beavers on a Mountain House community Facebook page appears to be split between those who like them and those who want them removed. Other residents are questioning why community officials can’t protect trees with wire cages.
“There are nearly 1,000 trees on the creek,” Louie said. “It cost $50 to $60 per cage. We have to be careful how we proceed. First we have to get the (state) permits to put cages near the lower creek area.”
50 or 60 dollars a TREE? Are you kidding me? What are you wrapping these trees with, gold wire? Jon and I puzzled over this and concluded that what’s actually happening is that he’s unsure how tall beavers are and thinks he has to wrap the entire 40 foot tree.
And in what dystopian universe do you need STATE PERMITS to wrap trees? I could like that beaver controlled universe were you need permission to protect your property from beavers. But it’s about as true as when your son says he had to watch cartoons for the English assignment, or the apartment couldn’t refund your deposit because you had stepped on the carpet.
Later when I complained about this obviously bogus bogusity on the facebook page an ‘anonymous citizen’ with a fake profile posted back that people were too focused on these beavers and didn’t care about things like park benches. When someone called them out on their fake profile they slinked away and were silent.
Later Caitlin explained that he wouldn’t permit them to sand paint trees because the EPA hadn’t approved it.
Let’s face it, Mountain House has decided to lie and make excuses and drag their unaccountably large feet until the problem is so dire they can justify killing these beavers. Caitlin has been unwaiveringly polite and accommodating. Now Louie is asking her to meet with him alone without those unmannerly loudmouths who call him out on his BS.
(It makes me remember the days when Dave Scola asked that I would come to the meeting alone because he didn’t feel comfortable when Jon scowled at him.)
These public works trolls are used to working without an audience and hate criticism of any kind. They are used to elegantly sucking up to a single power source, and can’t stand having more than one patron to keep happy.
Well, I called Mr. Louie’s bluff: wrote him privately and posted on the MH public page that Worth A Dam would come teach how we’ve been wrapping trees according to our public works requirements for a decade, film the training for future teaching and even give then a scholarship to wrap the first ten.
He’s been pretty quiet since then.
