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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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Democrats blocked a Republican effort Wednesday to rein in Gov. Janet Mills’ emergency powers roughly one year after lawmakers granted her sweeping authority to respond to the developing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a largely party-line vote, Democrats in the House opposed a Republican-drafted resolution to terminate Maine’s civil state of emergency on grounds that Mills had extended it repeatedly “without providing the Legislature with a sufficient scientific rationale or justification.”
The resolution failed on a 67-81 vote, with all Democrats opposed, all but one Republican in support and independent or unenrolled members split on the issue.
Initiated on March 15, 2020, just three days after the first COVID-19 case was detected in Maine, the civil state of emergency allowed Mills to quickly mobilize or shift state resources and tap into billions of dollars in federal relief funds. Mills has also used the emergency powers to restrict businesses, place limits on g
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Show Transcript SOCIAL DISTANCING. WMTW NEWS8 S PHIL HIRSCHKORN IS THERE. (PHIL ON CAM) ON THIS FIRST DAY OF A TWO DAY CIVIC CENTER SESSION, THE LEGISLATURE FOCUSED ON THE STATE BUDGET AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS. (VO 1: HOUSE SESSION) REPUBLICANS, WHO ARE IN THE MINORITY, PROPOSED ENDING THE CORONAVIRUS STATE OF EMERGENCY AND PANDEMIC POWERS EXTEDNED TO THE GOVERNOR A YEAR AGO. (SOT REP LYFORD, CLIP 7372@ 1:10) WE RE BACK TOGETHER, SO LET S END THE EMERGENCY. (VO 2: TWO SHOT.DEMO OUTSIDE) REPRSENTATIVE PETER LYFORD ARGUING IT S TIME T RESTPORE THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN THE BRANCES OF GOVERNMENT. A CROWD OF LIKE- MINDED CONSTITUENTS SHOWED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE BILL OUTSIDE THE CIVIC CENTER. (SOT REP. LYFORD, CLIP 7372 @ :50) THE PEOPLE OF MAINE S VOICES ARE NOT B