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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN BEAVER 131 the natural increase of a beaver colony would yield a stated number of skins annually, the chief care necessary being to plant trees to provide a food supply. How readily this could be done is shown by the history of the beaver in the State of New York, where they once al)ounded and where in spite of persistent trapping they seem not to have been wholly exterminated, al- though in 1894 Mr. Rad- ford finds that not more than ten were left in the Adirondack region. In 1904 the State of New York appropriated five hundred dollars for the reintroduction of beaver and with this and subsequent appropri- ations and the aid of pri- vate contributions some thirty-four animals were turned loose. By 1908 there were about one hundred and fifty ani- mals in the Adirondacks and since then they have not only increased but spread to other localities, a few even being found in northern New Jersey, although these may have been quietly introduced. The beaver seems formerly to have been found throughout the greater part of North America, outside the tropics, or wherever food and natural conditions were favorable. Many places, including several counties, have been named from the former occurrence of beaver and there are no less than fifty post-ofhces in the United States and one hundred lakes and streams thus desig- nated besides innumerable locally known beaver ponds and beaver dams. It is quite possible that Beaver Dam Pond near Manomet, Plymouth, may have
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I'hotooraph by Mr. C. II. Simpson Beaver Dam, Maskinonge, Province of Quebec

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