Letter to the Editor - A response on beavers and trapping
Editor, This letter is in response to Jeff C. Dibblee’s and Fran Buell’s letters to the editor. I find it quite interesting that someone else’s opinions and facts are unacceptable and open to criticism and ridicule if it doesn’t align with your thinking. I believe everyone is entitled to an opinion, even if we disagree. In answer to your questions about Beaver Deceivers and if they work, unlike trapping, they are quite effective and are being used throughout the country with much success. There are different versions depending on the situation. And $12,000 to $15,000 is way off the mark as far as cost. Not sure where you got that information on cost but it is incorrect. According to one of the beaver device experts, the most complex one he put in was under $5,000 and most are not that complicated. Skip Lisle the inventor of the Beaver Deceiver and “the” top expert said $2,500 to $3,5
Andrea Miller
With sun shining through beautiful sparkling snowflakes outside the window, Andrea Westing Lisle Miller, 71, passed away at the McClure Miller Respite House on February 9, 2021. There was so much love with her daughter holding her hand, stroking her hair, and Joan Baez on the speaker. Though a fast and furious cancer diagnosis just four short weeks earlier overwhelmed her suffering body, it did not dim her warm and loving spirit in those last days.
Andrea was born in New Orleans, La., to Mildred (“Midge”) Somers Westing. Shortly thereafter, Midge packed her wee infant daughter into a Model T Ford and, after a brief time in Texas where Midge babysat A.J. Foyt (yes, that A.J. Foyt!) to make money, she drove up the East Coast looking for a place to build a life for the two of them. She landed in the quaint village of Townshend, Vt. As the story goes, the small house she found to rent had a cow living in the basement that ha
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Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that has been trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
A beaver swims around a small section of the Sackets Brook, in Putney, Vt., near the Putney General Store.
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Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that has been trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
A beaver swims around a small section of the Sackets Brook, in Putney, Vt., near the Putney General Store.
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