Unintended consequences-or not?

PositionStateline - Brief Article

Washington voters banned most forms of animal trapping a year ago, but it may be working in unintended ways. Initiative 713 banned the use of body-gripping traps to capture any mammal. It also outlawed two types of poisons. Now dam-building beavers flood timberland, coyotes snatch more lambs, river otters devour salmon, raccoons destroy rhododendrons and moles plunder manicured lawns. But initiative sponsors say that's OK. People need to...

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