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This beaver was caught in a live trap in Richmond last month. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 1996 that restricted lethal traps and banned leg-hold traps, which were ensnaring pets.
This beaver was caught in a live trap in Richmond last month. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 1996 that restricted lethal traps and banned leg-hold traps, which were ensnaring pets.

Beaver foes seek to soften law's bite

Population, anger over trap rules grow

By Michael Levenson
Globe Correspondent / December 29, 2004

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Whacking aside branches in muddy, leaf-strewn woods in Lexington, Donald LaFountain edged closer to the beavers lurking in the murky waters of a half-frozen brook. (Full article: 815 words)

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