Graden variety "nuisance beaver" is DEAD!

Animal-rights activists decried the killing of a pesky beaver at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden yesterday, but garden officials said they had no choice.

The creature was dispatched yesterday morning with a single shot at close range.


The beaver caused nearly $25,000 in damage.


The USDA wildlife program kills about 300 nuisance beavers a year in Virginia, Lowney said.

Lewis Ginter had sought to move the beaver to a new home in the wild, but state game officials denied the request. A spokeswoman for the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said last week that allowing one beaver to be moved would set a bad precedent. The agency already gets numerous reports of problem beavers.

That would be "comparable to asking a homeowner to establish a niche for termites," the garden's statement said.



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*whew*

if EVER there was a nuisance beaver, SHE was it! :D

:cry: