control it, makes particularly good soup. As far as 

 possible all the meat was utilized. It was given to set- 

 tlers who were willing to come and get it. 



It is no sinecure, trapping beaver. The trapper 

 must use his wits and he must work. Packing in our 

 simple supplies to the trapping grounds, carrying a 

 packsack full of heavy double-spring traps from lake 

 to lake, tugging fifty-pound beaver through swamps 

 and underbrush to the trails and on to camp, and then 

 skinning the animals, until all hours of the night by the 

 light of lantern or candle, constituted the usual round 

 of the day. Park Superintendent Stillwell is wise in 

 animal lore, and no amount of hard work lessens his 

 interest in the woods or the wild animals. For my part, 

 I considered it a rare opportunity to share in this 

 unique experience, which brings one back not to the 

 time of our fathers, but to the days when our grand- 

 fathers entered the wilderness. Each day brought new 

 revelations regarding the life of the wonderful animals 

 we were catching. Indeed, each lake and each trap vis- 

 ited seemed to tell us something we had not noticed be- 

 fore ; and I feel that the forty beaver skins obtained 

 are merely an incident, and not the most important re- 

 sult of our work spent on the beaver trails. 



With a thousand beaver as capital, there is no rea- 

 son why most of the surplus should not be caught out 

 each year; but I am not going to make definite recom- 

 mendations to the Forestry Board until we see just 

 what results follow the trapping in the various locali- 

 ties. I believe there is going to be an opportunity to 

 develop and improve the beaver population. For in- 



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