goldwing2000
11-12-2003, 02:12 PM
More proof that PETA doesn't know sh*t from shinola.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes — Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program.
More... (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_re_us/girl_scouts_trapping_1)
One part that shocked the heck out of me:
The program is helping to curb a burgeoning population of the large rodents, which in Alaska can weigh up to 70 pounds.
Sweet merciful crap! That's a lot of beaver! :shock:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes — Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program.
More... (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_re_us/girl_scouts_trapping_1)
One part that shocked the heck out of me:
The program is helping to curb a burgeoning population of the large rodents, which in Alaska can weigh up to 70 pounds.
Sweet merciful crap! That's a lot of beaver! :shock: