As a resident and taxpayer of Port Coquitlam I am absolutely appalled at the council for even thinking of reintroducing the trapping of beavers.

I know that site because I have seen it for myself. Mr. Cheung is not only naive, he is also very ignorant. The only reason, like any other reason this province and it's governing municipalities has for killing wild animals - is money.

It's cheaper to trap and kill them than it is to solve the problem by mutual coexistence. The area in question is questionable in itself. The trees that grow in this ditch are as about as big as twigs. If as Mr. Cheung states that a tree actually fell on a car and crushed it, then I would have to question the material that the car was made of and the eyesight of the person reporting it.

When I was there sometime in October, two years ago, there wasn't enough water to drown an ant, let alone flood a subdivision - which by the way is already about six feet or more above the rivulet that the city calls a river.

The solution to this whole ridiculous affair is to simply put a retaining wall between the houses and the beaver's natural habitat, eliminating any possible flooding.

Of course this means spending some money, and when it comes to preserving wild animals they will always come second, money being the first consideration, always.

Mr. Cheung has to put away his adding machine and become less of an accountant and more of a conservationist.He must convince the city and its nearsighted hobbits to do the right thing for nature. His way will only mean the demise of the beavers and any other natural wild animal, where money is the only issue. They always want to save money but taxes keep going up.

As for the province in its quest to eliminate any wild animal because it's cheaper to kill them than to relocate them will make up any reason and use any excuse to justify it.

The beaver disease they talk about is untrue. They have never shown any evidence of this and there has never been an outbreak of beaver's disease in this province. If this disease did actually exist, why is it nothing is done to the beavers that apparently have it now? Why is it only a concern when relocation is an option. The answer is money, it's always money.

No Mr.Cheung, it's not a matter of disease or property damage, it's a matter of how we want to treat the wildlife in this province. If it takes a bit more money then I'm sure the city could find a way to do it. Take 5 dollars from my pocket, I don't mind. Don't forget, the beavers were there first long before the houses but nobody considered them then and they don't do it now. Let's do something for them for a change, instead of it always being for humans.