Busy beavers raising concern in Staten Island community

ABC 7 NY ^ | December 15. 2017

[SMGFan]

RICHMONDTOWN, Staten Island (WABC) -- In some spots, it looks like vandalism. In others, more like a wood carving exhibit. But there's no doubt, the culprits here in Staten Island are beavers.

Residents say the population is dramatically increasing along this stretch of the Bluebelt, a city owned creek in Richmondtown designed to manage water runoff. There are some big concerns.

"The trees! The trees!" said long-time resident Joe Palladino, who has watched hundreds of trees along the creek near his block, Saint Andrews Road, chewed down by the beavers.

"Once they're finished with these trees, what's next? The trees in front of your house?" he said.

Carlo Salimeni, who lives up the block, is already watching the tree in his front yard slowly dying. "One morning, I woke up and this is what I found," he told Eyewitness News.

If the tree falls, he is concerned about the power lines nearby. Salimeni also says he hears the beavers all night, chewing.

"Rattling, like chopping wood, chopping wood," he sai

[elcid1970]

Uh, how about...shoot ‘em, eat ‘em, & make nice things from their fur?

Beavers are mean & will attack you with razor teeth but without a clue that the gadget in your hand will make them dead in an instant. I’ve handled fresh beaver pelt shown to me by a farmer who wanted his land unflooded & his trees left intact.

Staten Island is said to be full of `nasty rightwingers’ and a .22 rifle in their hands makes little noise.

[tumblindice]

This whole mess is useless
As a whistle on a plow
If your pussy can’t do the dong.

I mean, dog.

[ebshumidors]

I grew up in Carteret and never saw a beaver of the rodent variety.