Needham Mass Decides to kill its beavers

The town of Needham MA decided to kill its beaver population because of the dam the beavers were building. It reminds me of a town in New Hampshire who made the same decision a few years ago. An official of that town said: "We have tried other things.They are very intelligent.You have to kill them."

I wrote to Needham and to the state parks commissioner:

"Dear Commissioner Sullivan -- In regard to Needham's decision to kill its beaver population,is it possible for those in the state office to suggest an alternative solution? Killing everything we decide is inconvenient hasn't worked so well for us human beings in the past. A new consciousness is forming that looks at the possibility of co-existence, a new thoughtfulness about the web of life in which we live -- that we still don't understand.

If we humans were as intelligent as we triumphantly tout ourselves to be we would find other ways to live with the beings who form as vital a part of this web as we do -- perhaps more so. I am ashamed of Needham's decision to murder rather than to think of other solutions for its "problem" with four-legged creatures who are simply trying to live. Such violence exists on a continuum that includes all the killing and destroying done by humanity in the present time and through most of its history. Has this kind of "problem-solving" really gotten any of us where we want to be?

Thank you for reading my comments. Very truly yours. "