to the extent that Eastern factories may have all 1 1n- 

 perfect stock of spruce lumber to work with that their 

 programs call for are absolutely essential for all of us. 

 From Loyal Loggers and Lumbermen. 



MODERN BEAVER TRAPPING 



By Wm. T. COX, State Forester 



AS a result of investigations conducted by Dr. 

 Thomas S. Roberts and Prof. D. Lange, as well as 

 by members of the Forest Service, it has been pretty 

 clearly determined that there are upwards of one thou- 

 sand beaver in Itasca State Park. These are for the 

 main part probably descended from the three beaver 

 placed in the park in 1901. The Governor of Ontario 

 presented two pair of beaver to Governor Lind for the 

 State of Minnesota in 1900. They were not delivered, 

 however, until 1901, when W. B. Douglas, then Attor- 

 ney General and intensely interested in Itasca Park, 

 persuaded Governor Van Sant to send the animals to 

 the park as the nucleus for a beaver colony. The males 

 fought in t VlA crate and one of them was killed, so that 

 only three beaver were placed on Schoolcraft Island in 

 Lake Itasca. The next year Dr. Roberts, the naturalist, 

 discovered the first dam built by these busy workers, a 

 short distance out of the west arm of the lake. Since 

 that time there has been rapid increase owing to thor- 

 ough protection, and probably to the introduction of 

 some new blood from stray beaver wandering up the 

 Mississippi from the Bowstring country and across 



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