Most of what you wrote is about 30 years out of date.
Here in the US midwest beavers are shot and their dams dynamited wherever they are found.
Not whenever. Sometimes. Today, in many places, even in the Midwest, beavers are considered beneficial to restoring a habitat to a more natural state. As long as they're controlled. But the wholesale slaughter you describe is simply false.
The majority of the US used to be endless chains of mosquito-infested beaver ponds, the entire length of every stream and river
Also completely false. Unless you define "majority of the US" to mean "portions of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red River watersheds," which is far from the majority of the US.
The extinction of the beaver is what made the US agriculturally useful.
The beaver is not extinct.
For better or worse, the age of the beaver is definitely over. At least in the US.
You have generalized your personal experience in your very small part of the world to be representative of a vast nation.
Here in the US midwest beavers are shot and their dams dynamited wherever they are found.
Not whenever. Sometimes. Today, in many places, even in the Midwest, beavers are considered beneficial to restoring a habitat to a more natural state. As long as they're controlled. But the wholesale slaughter you describe is simply false.
The majority of the US used to be endless chains of mosquito-infested beaver ponds, the entire length of every stream and river
Also completely false. Unless you define "majority of the US" to mean "portions of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red River watersheds," which is far from the majority of the US.
The extinction of the beaver is what made the US agriculturally useful.
The beaver is not extinct.
For better or worse, the age of the beaver is definitely over. At least in the US.
You have generalized your personal experience in your very small part of the world to be representative of a vast nation.