From degree completion rates, to the effect on private enrollment, to overly wide eligibility, many features of the program don't stand up to scrutiny.
That may soon change.
Lawmakers are weighing a proposal that has the support of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife that would allow property owners dealing with the sometimes-troublesome rodents to wipe them out.
Trappers have always been able to take beavers for their pelts during a regulated hunting season – generally October to April – but landowners dealing with flooded waterways have had to hire animal control agents certified by the state to come and remove the tree-chomping rodents that typically weigh 40 pounds apiece.
That worked out reasonably well when beaver pelts brought $60 apiece since trappers were ready to come to their aid. But now that pelts are selling for closer to $5 each, getting somebody to assist is becoming tricky.
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