Just received the new listing of depredation permits for 2020. 210 permits in all. I’ll be wading through them morosely today, but this is one that stands out. For the Creekside park beavers in Brentwood.
| WirId | IncidentDate | IncidentId | Initial Incident Category | BehaviorObserved | Permit Issued | Permit Issued Date | PermitStatus | NumberTakeAllowed | Inc Latitude | Inc Longitude | Zip Code | County | |||||||||||||
| WIR-2020-000786 | 2020/03/02 00:00:00 | 29074 | Depredation | Beaver/s have built dam across flood control channel/creek using trees planted for restoration in an urban interface area. We feel that pedestrian liability could also be an issue given nearby park and trails. | Yes | 43930 | Issued/Active | 5 | 37.9824897 | -121.6911668 | NULL | Contra Costa | Yes | ||||||||||||
Yes definitely. Watch out for that pedestrian liability on trails. Beavers might attack someone. You never know. Or a tree could fall several hours after it was chewed and hit Timmy in the head. Better kill them all. It’s the only safe plan.
What I realize, looking at the entire list. Is that there are SO MANY CATAGORIES required to fill out for other species like bobcats or bears, like where it was killed or whether it had an ear tag or what gender it was, but with beavers, MEH, just kill it. We don’t care where. We don’t really care how. And some of the time we don’t even care how many. Just getting rid of problems. Who cares?
I can see I’m in for a VERY FUN DAY. The good news is that yours will be a whole lot better when you listen to Glynnis Hood on yesterday’s CBC’s “The Current” with Matthew Galloway. I took the liberty of clipping out her 7 minutes from this hour long report. Enjoy!
The Current with Matt Galloway
