Environmental Group Bringing Potential Lawsuit Over State Beaver Management Plan

By Nate Wegehaupt

A Milwaukee-based environmental organization has filed an intent to sue both the federal government over their beaver management practices in Wisconsin.

Superior Bio-Conservancy is a nonprofit environmental organization working to protect water systems in the Great Lakes Region. They say that Wisconsin’s decade-old beaver management plan is outdated and unnecessarily kills thousands of beavers every year.

And, Superior Bio-Conservancy is threatening to sue the government agency that carries out the program –  the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services Division. 

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