Maryland teen airlifted after rabid beaver attack at state park

In the summer months along Maryland's familiar recreational waterways, three people — including two children — were attacked by rabid beavers at state parks, a series of encounters that unsettled the quiet assumption that nature, in its managed and designated spaces, remains benign. A thirteen-year-old boy bore the worst of it, airlifted to surgery after an unprovoked assault that his family described as unlike anything they had witnessed in years of swimming at the same site. The incidents invite a broader reckoning with how wilderness and human leisure coexist, and whether the systems meant