Minnesota Bill to Legalize Eating Beaver

AmmoLand ^ | February 25, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

According to startribune.com, about five months ago, the Minnesota House-Senate conference committee inserted a ban on eating beavers into the 2024 omnibus environment and natural resources bill. The ban only applies to nuisance beavers taken because they are doing damage. Beavers taken as part of the normal trapping season may legally be consumed by humans.

Landowners who have beavers that are doing damage to their property do not need a permit to take beavers to stop the damage. From dnr.state.min.us:

You can take some animals which are normally protected by Minnesota Statute without a license or permit if they are doing damage. If you are the landowner, manager or occupant of the property where the animal is causing damage, you can take the following animals.

The list includes beavers. State Senator Grant Hauschild has introduced a bill to rectify the beaver-eating ban, which has become the subject of considerable humor and jokes across the country. From kstp.com:

A bill introduced by DFL State Senator Grant Hauschild aims to answer at least one of those questions by once again allowing Minnesotans to eat any nuisance beavers they killed.

Here is the proposed legislation. The only change noticed by this correspondent is the proposed removal of the prohibition on human consumption of beaver at the end of the bill.

[HamiltonJay]

Lesbians are ecstatic, but admit their orgasms likely will be less intense now that the thrill of breaking the law is gone.

[HonorInPa]

You’ve never met my ex wife

[exinnj]

Literally or figuratively?

[digger48]

I’ve had a state issued nuisance license for many years to dispatch beavers anytime, anywhere, and by any means

The counties pay a bounty on them too

[Bratch]

"YUM!"

[SunkenCiv]

Apropos of nothing...

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

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[Uncle Miltie]

Lowest Common Denominator is also available on FR.

[Uncle Miltie]

“he said his name was Willam”

[Theophilus]

Those poor beavers.

[Theophilus]

Your neighborhood must have prodigious wildlife.

[jpp113]

I would bet that Tampon Timmy Walz doesn’t eat beaver.

[SunkenCiv]

Speaking of which Willem Dafoe doesn’t know how to spell either of his names. ;^)

[Libloather]

Hardest hit -

[cowboyusa]

🤮

[bankwalker]

It’s been illegal??? Oh no!!!

[Norski]

One more mystery meat for the chow mein at Warren Zevon’s favorite Chinese restaurant.

[Theophilus]

I think he is a beaver. A sick pathetic one. Actually, maybe he’s a transing platypus.

[Billthedrill]

There are other ways of dealing with nuisance beavers. The Fat Electrician has a story about Operation Beaver Drop, wherein nuisance beavers were dropped from airplanes into the Idaho wilderness. The hero of the story is a sky-diving elderly beaver named Geronimo, who was parachuted into the mountains with four female beavers to start a colony. Which is still flourishing. (Definitely a Language Warning)