beaver

The decision follows years of trials and will see beavers make an officially approved return to waterways.

Wild boar, like the lynx - and the local area's legally reintroduced beavers - were once a native species but were hunted to extinction about 700 years ago.

One farmer pointed out that reintroduced beavers had caused damage worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

That the greatest minds in the conservative legal movement were beavering away for months to make sure that when all of this went into effect on Day 1, or Week 1, it would be bulletproof.

A beaver management plan is underway, and $2 million has been allocated to develop statewide coexistence strategies and help relocate beavers from where they cause problems to where they can solve them.