Beedle has come up with the clearest, fairest answer to the pocket gopher problem yet in his recent letter to the editor. Just like the good old days, if you want to control a piece of property, you put it at the seller’s price and if it’s infested with moles or gophers, a hunting rifle works as good as anything.
If that breaks some bystander’s heart, let he or she buy it and they can mollycoddle, hug, breed or do anything they want with them. By the time they spend a bundle on taxes, lawn mower blades and keeping the creatures from infesting all the neighbors’ lands, they should be in rodent heaven.
If anyone wants to see where this insanity got a foothold, drive out to McKenna Meadows on the south end of Roy and see the habitat that had to be set aside for the “extremely rare” Roy prairie pocket gopher. Just be careful that you don’t let any household pets escape from your car and invade the gopher’s property.
